college_freshmen — Dutch college freshman (1995)
- Description
Relationships among 32 university freshmen in the Netherlands, collected by G. G. van de Bunt in 1994–1995, and analyzed with an actor-oriented model of network dynamics by van de Bunt, van Duijn and Snijders (1999). Except for a few existing relationships (acquaintances from a former school), the students did not know each other at the first measurement. The data were collected at seven time points (waves 0 to 6); the first four are three weeks apart, and the last three are six weeks apart. The original group consisted of 49 students, but after removing university drop-outs and those who did not fill in the questionnaire four or more times, a group of 32 students with almost complete data was obtained. At each wave, the students rated their relationship with each of the others as: 1, best friendship (persons whom they would call their "real" friends); 2, friendship (a good relationship, but not (yet) a "real" friend); 3, friendly relationship (regular pleasant contact during classes, which could grow into a friendship); 4, neutral relationship (not much in common; the chance of a friendship is not large); 5, troubled relationship (a person with whom they cannot get on very well, with a certain risk of conflict); or 0, unknown person. The students followed three different education programs, which overlapped largely during the first months, but diverged afterwards. Smoking was only allowed in special areas, so smokers had to separate themselves from non-smokers when they wished to smoke. The data were distributed by L. C. Freeman on his network data page at the University of California, Irvine (no longer online), from which this version was obtained via the Internet Archive.
A directed edge $i \to j$ indicates that student $i$ rated their relationship with student $j$ with a code from 1 to 5 in a given wave; there is one edge per wave in which a rating was given. Ratings coded as 0 (unknown person), 6 (item non-response) or 9 (actor non-response) are not represented as edges.
The network has the following properties:
- (Node)
male: whether the student is male. - (Node)
program: the length of the education program (2, 3 or 4 years). - (Node)
smoker: whether the student smokes. - (Node)
nonresponse: the waves in which all the ratings of the student are coded as actor non-response. - (Edge)
wave: the wave of the rating (0 to 6). - (Edge)
rating: the relationship code (1: best friendship, 2: friendship, 3: friendly relationship, 4: neutral relationship, 5: troubled relationship).
- (Node)
- Tags
- Social Offline Weighted Temporal Multigraph Metadata
- Added
- 2020-08-11
- Citation
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- G. Van de Bunt, M. Van Duijn, & T. Snijders, "Friendship networks through time: An actor-oriented dynamic statistical network model." Comp. & Math. Org. Theory 5(2), 167-192 (1999) 10.1023/A:1009683123448 Sci-Hub
- G. G. van de Bunt, "Friends by Choice: An Actor-Oriented Statistical Network Model for Friendship Networks Through Time." Thesis Publishers, Amsterdam (1999) scholar.google.com
- Upstream URL OK
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210115130726/http://moreno.ss.uci.edu/data.html#vdb
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- $\left<k\right>$
- Mean degree
- $\sigma_k$
- Standard deviation of the degrees
- $\lambda_h$
- Largest eigenvalue of the Hashimoto (non-backtracking) matrix
- $\tau$
- Random walk mixing time
- $r$
- Degree assortativity
- $c$
- Global clustering coefficient
- $\oslash$
- (Pseudo-) diameter
- $S$
- Relative size of the largest component
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- Node properties
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- Edge properties
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