Family planning in Korea

Post date: Dec 02, 2011 3:22:57 PM

Overview

Network Dataset

The dataset name is Korea, and includes the following:

• • Korea1.net: 39 vertices (women), 69 edges (discuss family planning), no arcs, no loops, no line values.

  • Korea2.net: 39 vertices (women), 84 edges (discuss family planning), no arcs, no loops, no line values. In addition, we know which women adopted family planning methods at least temporarily (class one in the partitions).

  • Korea1_adopters.clu: classification of the (39) women in Korea1.net according to adoption of family planning methods: 0 - did not adopt, 1 - adopted

  • Korea2_adopters.clu: idem for Korea1.net.

  • Korea1_members.clu: classification of the (39) women in Korea1.net according to membership of the local Mothers' Club: 0 - was not a member, 1 - was a member.

  • Korea2_members.clu: idem for Korea2.net.

  • Korea.paj: Pajek project file containing all of these files.

Background

This is a communication network within a small enterprise: a sawmill. All employees were asked to indicate the frequency with which they discussed work matters with each of their colleagues on a five-point scale ranging from less than once a week to several times a day. Two employees were linked in the communication network if they rated their contact as three or more. We do not know whether both employees had to rate their tie in this way or that at least one employee had to indicate a strength of three or more.

In the sawmill, the employees are Spanish-speaking (H) or English- speaking (E), which, of course, is relevant to their communication. The sawmill contains two main sections: the mill (M), where tree trunks are sawn into logs, and the planer section (P), where logs are planed. Then there is a yard (Y) where two employees are working, and some managers and additional officials. Vertex labels indicate the ethnicity and the type of work of each employee, e.g. HP-10 is an Hispanic (H) working in the planer section (P).

References

• • E.M. Rogers & D.L. Kincaid, Communication Networks. Toward a New Paradigm for Research (New York: The Free Press, 1981).

  • W. de Nooy, A. Mrvar, & V. Batagelj, Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), Chapter 6.

History

• • Original author: D. Lawrence Kincaid (1945, lkincaid@jhuccp.org ; Senior Advisor for the Research and Evaluation Division and Associate Scientist in the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) & Everett Mitchell Rogers (Professor and Chair, Department of Communication & Journalism, University of New Mexico, erogers@unm.edu).

  • Data compiled into Pajek data files by W. de Nooy, 2001.