Our Health Counts Toronto: using respondent-driven sampling to unmask census undercounts of an urban indigenous population in Toronto, Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To provide evidence of the magnitude of census undercounts of 'hard-to-reach' subpopulations and to improve estimation of the size of the urban indigenous population in Toronto, Canada, using respondent-driven sampling (RDS).

Design

Respondent-driven sampling.

Setting

The study took place in the urban indigenous community in Toronto, Canada. Three locations within the city were used to recruit study participants.

Participants

908 adult participants (15+) who self-identified as indigenous (First Nation, Inuit or Métis) and lived in the city of Toronto. Study participants were generally young with over 60% of indigenous adults under the age of 45 years. Household income was low with approximately two-thirds of the sample living in households which earn

SUBMITTER: Rotondi MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5770955 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature