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Information on each participant\u2019s social networks was collected in two ways:\u00a0 through the communication event logs obtained from participant\u2019s smartphones on who they communicated with (see <\/span>Communication Data<\/b> section) and through network surveys.\u00a0 This section describes the network survey data.\u00a0 More detailed information about the surveys can be found in two reports — <\/span>Network Survey Cleaning<\/b> and <\/span>Network Survey Edge Data<\/b> authored by Matthew Chandler.\u00a0 The codebook for the merged network surveys can be found in <\/span>Documents<\/b>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Like the basic surveys, the network surveys were administered every 3-4 months using Qualtrics survey software. Tier 1 participants were given the survey prior to arrival on campus so their data includes information on their social networks prior to arriving at ND. \u00a0 Links to copies of all the network surveys in both pdf and doc form are in <\/span>Table 4:\u00a0 Basic Survey Questions by Wave<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The network data was collected using the typical methods that researchers use to collect network data through surveys with name generators and then name interpreters.\u00a0 The name generators are used to generate the names of people (alters) in a person\u2019s (the ego\u2019s) social network, while the name interpreters are used to gather information on each alter and the nature of the tie with that alter.\u00a0 We chose to use a single general name generator:<\/span><\/p>\n

We would like to know who you consider to be in your social network. In the spaces below please list up to 20 people with whom you spend time communicating or interacting.<\/span><\/p>\n

This broad name generator allowed respondents to recall as many of the people that they interacted with irrespective of how frequent the interaction was and how the interaction occurred.\u00a0 Beginning with Wave 3 (Summer 2016), after listing up to 20 alters, respondents were shown on their screen the names of the 20 alters they had named in the previous network survey and asked if they wanted to add any of these people to their list of 20 alters.\u00a0 Respondents could add up to 5 alters in this manner. This means that starting with Wave 3 respondents could list up to 25 alters.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The data are organized as an edge list in which each record is a tripet {<\/span>egoid, alterid,wave<\/span><\/i>}\u00a0 consisting of a study participant (<\/span>egoid<\/span><\/i>) and one of her alters (<\/span>alterid<\/span><\/i>)\u00a0 that she named in that survey <\/span>wave<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0 The ego\u2019s and alter\u2019s are coded using the anonymized case code numbers described in<\/span> Data Linkage and Identification<\/b> , so researchers can link records within the network survey data set (i.e. an alter that is named more than once by the same ego, alters that are named by two different egos) and link records in the network survey data to records in other data sets (e.g.,\u00a0 the basic survey data, communication event data). Altogether there are 35,912 data records.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For each alter listed, a series of questions were asked about their traits and the relationship with the ego.\u00a0 See the codebook for detailed information including in which waves various questions were asked.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Alter traits <\/span><\/i>obtained include:<\/span><\/p>\n