Social Networks

This is data constructed from social network questions from the 1994 and 2000 Survey data. The 1994 and 2000 Surveys undertook a difficult, but very innovative, task to identify both social and kinship networks among the residents, households and villages of Nang Rong.  These networks include individual, household, and village ties to other individuals, households, villages, districts and provinces.  These ties are measured directly through kinship, labor exchanges, and agricultural equipment exchanges. Other ties are measured indirectly through the shared use of resources such as temples in the village, water sources, primary and secondary schools, or spatial patterning of agricultural plots.


Sociomatrices

Sociomatrices contain information about social network ties (or relations) and are used as computational input for social network analysis programs.  The following chart includes links to the original sociomatrix instructions for the various social networks:
 

Network Type	1994 Survey	2000 Survey
Household Level Ties	Sibling Help with the Rice Harvest Sharing, Renting and Hiring Equipment	Sibling Help with the Rice Harvest Help with the Cassava Harvest Sharing, Renting and Hiring Equipment
Village Level Ties	Tractor Hiring Primary and Secondary School Temple "Go to" and "Come from" for Short Term Work Rice, Cassava and Other Crops Shared Water

Types of Social Network Measures

The various types of social network measures are constructed using the sociomatrices and a social network analysis program.  Click on the links below for more details on these variable types:

• Path length variables
• Chains to destinations
• Multiplexity variables that compare two relations
• Mutuality measures
• IQV and mean proportion reachable variables

Specs & Stats

• Data Files Chart

Variable x Variable Documentation

• 1994 Survey
• 2000 Survey