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Hi Hartti,

Thanks.

This particular cite actually seems to be a false positive as it 
resolves to a survey done in 2000:

<http://cospl.coalliance.org/fez/eserv/co:5672/ucsu20210tb023internet.pdf>

I will keep looking, thanks to helpful leads provided. I will report 
back to this list what I find.

Mark

On 2/21/11 3:24 PM, Hartti Suomela wrote:
> Just out of curiosity I decided to try out the Google Book search. The
> following search returns all hits for "snowball sample" between 1900 and
> 1958 (total of one)
> http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=%22snowball+sample%22&tbs=,cdr:1,cd_min:Jan%201_2%201900,cd_max:Jan%2031_2%201959&num=10
> <http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=%22snowball+sample%22&tbs=,cdr:1,cd_min:Jan%201_2%201900,cd_max:Jan%2031_2%201959&num=10>
> There might be more from the earlier years as well (with "snowball
> sampling" or "snowball sample", etc...I did not try this approach any
> further...)
>
> best regards
> Hartti Suomela
>
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Mark S. Handcock
> <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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>     Hi all,
>
>     Does anyone know of uses of the term "snowball sampling" before
>     Coleman's 1958 paper? Because it is a natural analogy for the
>     process of collecting data via exploiting relational information
>     collected from respondents, I expect is has been in informal use for
>     a long time. Coleman (1958) who defines it as:
>
>     "Snowball sampling: One method of interviewing a man's immediate
>     social environment is to use the sociometric questions in the
>     interview for sampling purposes."
>
>     Are there earlier references in print?
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Mark
>
>     James S. Coleman, "Relational Analysis: The Study of Social
>     Organizations with Survey Methods", Human Organization, 28--36, 1958
>
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