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Ken,

The following may be of interest.

Klovdahl, A.; Dhofier, Z.; Oddy, G.; O’Hara, J.; Stoutjesdijk, S.; and 
Whish, A. 1977. Social networks in an urban area: First Canberra 
study. Journal of Soc. 13(2):169–172. (involves sampling a social 
network using random walk sampling)

Munmun De Choudhury, Yu-Ru Lin, Hari Sundaram, K. Selçuk Candan, 
Lexing Xie, Aisling Kelliher: How Does the Data Sampling Strategy 
Impact the Discovery of Information Diffusion in Social Media? ICWSM 
2010http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM10/paper/view/1521

Thompson, S. (2006): "Adaptive Web Sampling," Biometrics, 62, 1224­-1234.

S. K. Thompson and G. A. F. Seber. 1996. Adaptive Sampling. New York: 
J. Wiley & Sons.

Regards,
Rob

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> Are there published studies that investigate the portion of a study 
> population that needs to be sampled in order to begin revealing the 
> major characteristics of network structure?
> 
> We have in mind a population of several hundred nature conservation 
> actors in a particular geographic region, but lack the funding to be 
> able to survey all of them about their relationships.
> 
> Many thanks,          -ken
>  
> Ken Vance-Borland, Executive Director
> The Conservation Planning Institute
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> conservation planning
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