SOCIAL RESEARCH SYSTEM INCLUDING SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATION, SAMPLING SYSTEM, METHOD OF SOCIAL RESEARCH, AND PROGRAM FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sampling system capable of extracting a snowball respondent to be used for a snowball sampling research method as a sample without depending on selection via introduction of a main respondent.;SOLUTION: The sampling system includes: a social network data holding means storing known society network data; and a sampling means extracting a pair of the main respondent and a sub respondent to be used in the snowball sampling research method as samples while referring to the social network data stored in the social network data holding means. In this way, a pair of samples can be extracted without performing previous research on the main respondent.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT