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Fig. 10

From: Analyzing the demographic, spatial, and temporal factors influencing social contact patterns in U.S. and implications for infectious disease spread

Fig. 10

Age contact matrices showing the mean number and duration of household member contacts by sex. They display assortative contacts by age, and show parents, especially mothers, spending more time with children. Women have more contact with the age group directly above theirs, while men have more contact with the age group directly below theirs. Based on ATUS 2003–2018 surveys. ATUS respondents had to be at least 15 years old

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BMC Infectious Diseases

ISSN: 1471-2334

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