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Keeling, Matthew James, Vernon, Matthew C., Danon, Leon, House, Thomas A. and Read, Jonathan M. (2008) Online And Offline Ego‐centered Network Data Collection. In: 31st International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Florida, USA, 8‐13, Feb 2011 . Published in: Proceedings of the 31st International Sunbelt Social Network Conference
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Abstract
The Social Contact Study was a cross‐sectional study of the contact patterns of more than five thousand people from the United Kingdom. It employed postal
and electronic questionnaires to elicit data about a responder's conversational and tactile encounters on a particular day, as well as the responder's view of the
social encounters between their contacts. This study was designed to collect large‐scale data on the contact patterns of individuals in the UK that would be
suitable for modelling the transmission of infectious diseases such as influenza; during the data collection period, a facebook tie‐in was developed to increase
online participation in the survey. In this paper, we compare and contrast the offline and online participants (the latter being partitioned into those who
responded before the facebook tie‐in, and those who responded after it was launched). In particular, we show that these responder groups differ in their
demography, as well as in the contact patterns that they report. Further, we show how demographic data can be used to make the different participant groups
more comparable and to assess the impact of response mode on the supplied network data. These findings give us confidence in the validity of combining
offline and online techniques to gather large‐scale contact data
| Item Type: | Conference Item (Speech) | ||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Proceedings of the 31st International Sunbelt Social Network Conference | ||||
| Publisher: | International Network for Social Network Analysis | ||||
| Official Date: | 2008 | ||||
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| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
| Conference Paper Type: | Speech | ||||
| Title of Event: | 31st International Sunbelt Social Network Conference | ||||
| Type of Event: | Conference | ||||
| Location of Event: | Florida, USA | ||||
| Date(s) of Event: | 8‐13, Feb 2011 |
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