Use of a telephone screener to identify a probability sample of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals
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Randall L Sell1, Jennifer Kates, Mollyann Brodie
1Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY 10032, USA. rls39@columbia.edu
Objectives:
To examine public response to a telephone screener used to identify a probability sample of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals.
Methods:
A telephone screener was designed to provide a representative sample of self-identified lesbians, gays, and bisexuals (LGB) in the 30 central cities of the 15 largest Consolidated Metropolitan Areas.
Results:
Of 14,458 households contacted, 11,612 completed at least part of the survey. Of these, only 2.6% refused or responded "don't know" to the sexual orientation screener question. Respondents from the northeast were more reluctant to answer than respondents from the west.
Conclusions:
The use of a screener on a national telephone survey to screen households for self-identified lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults was a successful way to generate a representative sample.
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