Social capital – the strength of our relationships and communities – has been shown to play an important role in outcomes ranging from income to health. Using privacy-protected data on 21 billion friendships from Facebook, we measure three types of social capital in each neighborhood, high school, and college in the United States:
Cohesiveness: the degree to which social networks are fragmented into cliques
Economic connectedness: the degree to which low-income and high-income people are friends with each other
Civic engagement: rates of volunteering and participation in community organizations
The dataset is 8 MB large.
Publications Citing This Dataset:
Xi Wang, Tao Pei, Ci Song, Jie Chen, Hua Shu, Yaxi Liu, Sihui Guo and Xiao Chen. (2023). How does socioeconomic status influence social relations? A perspective from mobile phone data. Journal: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. V.615
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2023.128612
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2022.11.004 Chrislip, D.D., MacPhee, D. and Schmitt, P. (2023), "Developing a civic capacity index: measuring community capacity to respond to civic challenges", International Journal of Public Leadership, Vol. 19 No. 1, pp. 14-30.
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