A stratified sample of 594 respondents from the 2004 General Social Survey (GSS) containing egocentric network data. The dataset includes information about respondents (egos), their network members (alters), and the relationships between those network members (alter-alter ties).
The sample was drawn using stratified random sampling without replacement across five stratification variables: age category (3 levels), race, sex, marital status, and number of alters named.
Format
An egor object (from the egor package) containing three data frames:
- ego
594 respondents with the following variables:
.egoID: Unique ego identifier
vpsu: Variance primary sampling unit
vstrat: Variance stratum
wtssall: Sample weight
age: Respondent's age in years
race: Race of respondent
sex: Sex of respondent
marital: Marital status
numgiven: Number of alters named
- alter
555 alters (network members) with variables:
.egoID: Link to ego
.alterID: Alter identifier (1-5)
age: Alter's age
race: Alter's race
sex: Alter's sex
spouse: Whether alter is spouse/partner
intrace: Race of alter (alternative coding)
sexsex: Sex of alter (alternative coding)
- aatie
640 alter-alter ties with variables:
.egoID: Link to ego
.srcID: Source alter ID
.tgtID: Target alter ID
weight: Closeness (1 = especially close, 2 = know each other, 3 = total strangers)
Source
General Social Survey 2004. NORC at the University of Chicago. Data retrieved from https://gss.norc.org/