Goeyvaerts {ergm.multi}

A sample of within-household contact networks in Flanders and Brussels

Description

This is a list of 318 network objects derived from contact diary data collected by by Goeyvaerts et al. (2018). The study recruited households in Flanders and Brussels-Capital region with at least one child 12 or under. The networks are symmetrized.

Usage

data(Goeyvaerts)

Format

An object of class list of length 318.

Nonstandard Network Attributes

included

(logical) whether the network was included in Goeyvaerts's analysis. (Two were excluded.)

weekday

(logical) whether the contact diary on which the network is based was collected on a weekday, as opposed to weekend.

Nonstandard Vertex Attributes

age

(numeric) the household member's age.

gender

(character) the household member's gender ("F"/"M").

role

(character) the household member's inferred role ("Father"/"Mother"/"Child"/"Grandmother").

Licenses and Citation

When publishing results obtained using this data set, the original authors (Goeyvaerts et al. 2018) should be cited, along with this R package.

Source

The data were collected and by Goeyvaerts et al. (2018) and curated by Pietro Coletti.

References

Goeyvaerts N, Santermans E, Potter G, Torneri A, Kerckhove KV, Willem L, Aerts M, Beutels P, Hens N (2018). “Household Members Do Not Contact Each Other at Random: Implications for Infectious Disease Modelling.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1893), 20182201. doi:10.1098/rspb.2018.2201.

See Also

vignette("Goeyvaerts_reproduction") for a vignette reproducing the Goeyvaerts analysis and performing diagnostics