Respondent-Driven Sampling for Surveying Ethnic Minorities in Ecuador Mullo, Héctor Sánchez Borrego, Ismael Ramón Pasadas del Amo, Sara Respondent-driven sampling Indigenous peoples Ecuador Housing satisfaction Poverty Well-being Social exclusion Quality of life In this work, we consider the problem of surveying a population of young Indigenous, Montubios and Afro-Ecuadorians to study their living conditions and socioeconomic issues. We conducted a Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) survey in the canton of Riobamba, Ecuador. RDS is a network-based sampling method intended to survey hidden or hard-to-reach populations. We have obtained RDS estimates and confidence intervals of these characteristics. We have illustrated and discussed some of the assumptions of the method using some available diagnostic tools. Our results suggest that RDS is an effective methodology for studying social and economic issues of this ethnic minority in Ecuador. This technique is relatively easy to implement and has the potential to be applied to survey other hidden populations in other settings. 2020-12-22T10:02:06Z 2020-12-22T10:02:06Z 2020-11-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Mullo, H., Sánchez-Borrego, I., & Pasadas-del-Amo, S. (2020). Respondent-Driven Sampling for Surveying Ethnic Minorities in Ecuador. Sustainability, 12(21), 9102. [doi:10.3390/su12219102] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/65092 10.3390/su12219102 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España Mdpi