hiv_transmission — HIV transmission network (1988-2001)

Description

A network of sexual, drug-use, needle-sharing and social contacts among people at high risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, from the "Network Metastudy Project" archive assembled by M. Morris and R. Rothenberg, which combines the data of eight network studies conducted in North America between 1988 and 2001 (with some interviews up to 2003): Colorado Springs Project 90, Bushwick (Brooklyn), Atlanta Urban, Flagstaff (rural Arizona), Atlanta Antiviral, Houston, Baltimore SHIELD, and Manitoba. The studies recruited participants with different designs (e.g. contact tracing from infected persons, chain-link referral from targeted seeds, egocentric and saturation sampling), and in each interview the respondent named their contacts in a recent time window (typically 6 months). Some studies were longitudinal, with repeated interviews of the same persons.

Nodes are persons (respondents and the contacts they named), and each directed edge is a record of a tie, pointing from the person who named it to the person named (the "egodyads" file of the archive; the file of ties among alters is not included). The same pair of persons can be connected by several edges, e.g. for different types of tie or different interviews. Since the person identifiers of the source data are only unique within each study, persons are identified here by their study and ID, and the nodes and edges of each study can be selected with the property STUDYNUM.

In all properties, the code -9 means "out of design" and -8 means "not asked", and missing dates are given as 01-Jan-1900. The properties are taken from the variables of the source data, as described in its codebook:

Vertex properties: name (person ID within the study), STUDYNUM (study, with the codes given below), and the attributes of the person recorded in the dyad records: testdat (date of lab test), SG (sample generation, i.e. number of steps from a seed of the chain-referral sampling; 0 = seed), NTYPE (1 = respondent, 2 = eligible, 3 = alter), FRSTTYP (whether the person first appeared as respondent or alter), IDKNOWN (identity known), LOCAL (resided in the study jurisdiction), RACE (1 = American Indian, 2 = Black, 3 = Asian/Pacific Islander, 4 = White, 5 = other), ETHN (Hispanic), SEX, ORIENT and BEHAV (self-reported and behavioral sexual orientation), OCCPRES and OCCCENS (occupational prestige and census code), OCC and OCCLOC (occupation and its location), AGE, YOB (year of birth), MARIT (marital status), EDUC (educational attainment), indicators of being a sex worker (PRO), pimp (PIMP), client of sex workers (JOHN), drug dealer (DEALER), drug manufacturer (DRUGMAN), thief (THIEF), retired (RETIRED), housewife (HWIFE), on disability (DISABLE), unemployed (UNEMP) or homeless (STREETS), lab test results for gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, HIV and hepatitis B (GONO, GONOEV, CHLAM, CHLAMEV, SYPH, SYPHEV, HIV, HBV), self-reported history of these infections (GONOHX, CHLAMHX, SYPHHX, HIVHX), LINENUM (order of elicitation), FRSTYR (study year of first appearance), SOURCES (number of persons that named this person) and BACKFIL (whether demographic information was backfilled from self-reports).
Edge properties: TIETYPE (mode of connection: 0 = other, 1 = social, 2 = drug, 3 = sexual, 4 = needle), DYADKEY and DYADTYPE (0 = direct partner, otherwise suspect/associate), RECENT (1 = tie within the interview window, 0 = at any time in the past), FREQ (frequency of contact: 1 = once or twice, 2 = a few times, 3 = steady), intdate, begdate, enddate and testdate (dates of the interview, of the first and most recent contact, and of the respondent's lab test), YEAR (year of interview), STDYYEAR (years since the base interview), ITER (interview number), WINDOW (time window used to elicit contacts), SAMPLE (sampling scheme: 1 = saturation, 2 = contact tracing, 4 = chain-link tracing, 6 = egocentric, 7 = three-link chain and mixed), CHAIN and NET_TYPE (sampling chain identifiers), RELTYPE (relationship of the contact to the respondent, e.g. "FRIEND"), STUDYNUM (study: 1 = Colorado Springs Project 90, 2 = Bushwick, 3 = Atlanta Urban, 4 = Flagstaff, 5 = Atlanta Antiviral, 6 = Houston, 7 = Baltimore SHIELD, 8 = Manitoba), RID (ID of the interviewed respondent, which usually but not always coincides with the person who named the contact), and the attributes of that respondent at the time of the interview, with the same names and codes as the vertex properties above.

Tags

Social Public Health Unweighted Metadata

Added

2020-08-11

Citation

M. Morris and R. Rothenberg. "HIV Transmission Network. Metastudy Project: An Archive of Data From Eight Network Studies, 1988–2001.” Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (2011). 10.3886/ICPSR22140.v1 Sci-Hub

Upstream URL manual

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/NAHDAP/studies/22140

Upstream license

Restricted access. Upstream does not permit data redistribution, hence the network files cannot be downloaded without authorization. See here how to gain access.

Networks

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Column legend

$\left<k\right>$: 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
NPs: Node properties
EPs: Edge properties

Name	Nodes	Edges	$\left<k\right>$	$\sigma_k$	$\lambda_h$	$\tau$	$r$	$c$	$\oslash$	$S$	Kind	Mode	NPs	EPs	gt	GraphML	GML	csv
hiv_transmission	35,229	85,890	4.88	12.21	15.60	140.85	-0.08	0.03	11	0.76	Undirected	Unipartite	name testdat SG NTYPE FRSTTYP IDKNOWN LOCAL RACE ETHN SEX ORIENT BEHAV OCCPRES OCCCENS AGE PRO PIMP JOHN DEALER DRUGMAN THIEF RETIRED HWIFE DISABLE UNEMP STREETS MARIT EDUC GONO GONOEV CHLAM CHLAMEV SYPH SYPHEV HIV HBV GONOHX CHLAMHX SYPHHX HIVHX LINENUM OCC OCCLOC FRSTYR SOURCES BACKFIL YOB	RID DYADKEY DYADTYPE TIETYPE RECENT intdate begdate enddate testdate SAMPLE SG FRSTTYPE IDKNOWN LOCAL RACE ETHN SEX ORIENT BEHAV OCCPRES OCCCENS AGE PRO PIMP JOHN DEALER DRUGMAN THIEF RETIRED HWIFE DISABLE UNEMP STREETS YEAR STDYYEAR ITER WINDOW MARIT EDUC GONO GONOEV CHLAM CHLAMEV SYPH SYPHEV HIV HBV GONOHX CHLAMHX SYPHHX HIVHX FREQ CHAIN NET_TYPE RELTYPE OCC OCCLOC FRSTYR SOURCES STUDYNUM YOB	1.2 MiB	2.2 MiB	1.9 MiB	1.6 MiB

Ridiculograms^*

^* These are automatically generated force-directed visualizations, and can be quite meaningless for networks both big and small. They should not be taken seriously as sources of scientific insight. See here for a discussion.