Fig. 3
From: Influence of social contact patterns and demographic factors on influenza simulation results
Distribution of contacts for eight countries. 1st column: contacts per individual per day according to the POLYMOD study [5]. Second column: age distributions using the age classes of the POLYMOD study (averages of representative population samples of 1000 individuals per year for the period from 2014 to 2033). 3rd column: total number of contacts per day in a population of 1000 individuals with the age distributions of the 2nd column (combining contacts initiated by the age group and directed to the age group by others; see text for further explanations). Color coding of the bars in the 1st and 3rd column: black = contact with children and juveniles (0–19 years); dark grey: contacts with young adults (20–64 years); light grey: contacts with elderly (65+ years). 4th column: contacts among children (C), young adults (A) and elderly (E); thickness of arrows are proportional to the numbers of contacts (numbers denote daily contacts in a population with a total size of 1000 individuals)