[Estimation on the size of men who have sex with men among college students in Beijing through the Network Scale-Up Method (NSUM)]

Jing Guo; Xiao-juan Huang; Xiu-bin Wang; Hao-yi Weng; Wei Guo

[Estimation on the size of men who have sex with men among college students in Beijing through the Network Scale-Up Method (NSUM)]

Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi. 2013 Nov;34(11):1080-2.

[Article in Chinese]

Authors

Jing Guo¹, Xiao-juan Huang¹, Xiu-bin Wang¹, Hao-yi Weng¹, Wei Guo²

Affiliations

¹ School of Sociology and Population Study, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China.
² National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Email:guowei@chinaaids.cn.

PMID: 24517938

Abstract

Objective: Network Scale-Up Method (NSUM) was used to estimate the Personal Network Size (C) of college students in Beijing and the size of men who have sex with men (MSM).

Methods: A survey was conducted on Beijing college students to estimate the personal network size (C) through NSUM and then using the back-estimating and attitude adjustment to correct C value and the size of the target population.

Results: The mean of C among Beijing college students was 97 and the differences of C between different majors and different grades were both statistically significant. Among Beijing College students, 3.96% of them identified themselves as MSM, with the number as 16 260.

Conclusion: Using the NSUM to estimate C of Beijing college students and size of MSM seemed to be credible which worth popularized.

Publication types

English Abstract
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Homosexuality, Male / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Male
Masculinity*
Regression Analysis
Social Networking*
Students*