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Table 3 Homophily in network components for different link steps

From: Tracking social contact networks with online respondent-driven detection: who recruits whom?

 

Variables (type of correlation coefficient)

1 link stepa

p value

2 link stepsa

p value

3-6 link steps (lumped together)a

p value

Type of contact network

Age (r)

0.36 [0.28–0.44]

<0.001 (df: 486)

0.13 [−0.03−0.28]

0.109 (df: 156)

0.23 [−0.01−0.43]

0.058 (df: 70)

 

Sex (r φ )

0.07 [−0.02–0.16]

0.107 (df: 486)

0.25 [0.09–0.39]

0.002 (df: 156)

0.17 [−0.07−0.38]

0.167 (df: 70)

 

Education (r rank )

0.31 [0.23–0.40]

<0.001 (n: 488)

0.08 [−0.08–0.24]

0.293 (n: 158)

−0.01 [−0.25−0.21]

0.951 (n: 72)

 

Household size (r)

0.22 [0.13–0.30]

<0.001 (df: 486)

0.18 [0.02–0.33]

0.025 (df: 156)

0.03 [−0.20−0.26]

0.785 (df: 70)

 

Degree LOG (r)

0.07 [−0.03–0.16]

0.153 (df: 468)

−0.02 [−0.18–0.14]

0.808 (df: 149)

−0.03 [−0.26−0.21]

0.838 (df: 67)

Clustering of vaccination and disease

Vaccinated (r φ )

0.23 [0.14–0.32]

<0.001 (df: 453)

0.02 [−0.14–0.18]

0.817 (df: 143)

0.07 [−0.17−0.30]

0.567 (df: 67)

 

Belief vaccination protects (r rank )

0.26 [0.18–0.35]

<0.001 (n: 455)

0.02 [−0.14–0.18]

0.812 (n: 145)

0.11 [−0.13−0.32]

0.387 (n: 69)

 

One or more symptoms (r φ )

0.11 [0.02–0.20]

0.018 (df: 453)

0.11 [−0.05–0.27]

0.179 (df: 143)

0.15 [−0.09−0.37]

0.231 (df: 67)

 

Self-reported common cold (r φ )

0.04 [−0.06–0.13]

0.455 (df: 453)

−0.08 [−0.24–0.08]

0.333 (df: 143)

−0.11 [−0.33−0.14]

0.389 (df: 67)

 

Self-reported influenza (r φ )

0.26 [0.17–0.34]

<0.001 (df: 453)

0.03 [−0.13–0.20]

0.691 (df: 143)

−0.04 [−0.27−0.20]

0.764 (df: 67)

  1. aCoefficients and 95 % confidence intervals are shown