Drugnet

Post date: Aug 15, 2016 3:22:9 PM

DESCRIPTION: This is a dichotomous adjacency matrix of drug users in Hartford. Ties are directed and represent acquaintanceship. The network is a result of two years of ethnographic observations of people's drug habits.

NETWORK DATA: 1-mode matrix 293x293 person by person, directed ties. Relations are acquaintanceship.

Attribute dataset includes ethnicity, gender.

Ethnicity codes: 2 = African American; 3 = Puerto Rican/Latino; 1, 5, 6, 7 = white or other

Gender codes: 1 = male; 2 = female; 0 = unknown

CITATIONS: WEEKS, M. R., CLAIR, S., BORGATTI, S. P., RADDA, K. & SCHENSUL, J. J. 2002. Social networks of drug users in high-risk sites: Finding the connections. AIDS and Behaviour, 6, 193-206.

SOURCE/AVAILABILITY: https://sites.google.com/site/sfeverton18/research/cohesion-and-clustering

KEYWORDS: Drug users