| Attiro {netdata} | R Documentation |
In 1948, American sociologists executed a large field study in the Turrialba region, which is a rural area in Costa Rica (Latin America). They were interested in the impact of formal and informal social systems on social change.
Among other things, they investigated visiting relations between families living in haciendas (farms) in a neighborhood called Attiro. There is also the network for a village in the area called San Juan Sur (See the data set {tt SanJuanSur}.
The network of visiting ties is a simple directed graph: each arc represents "frequent visits" from one family to another. The exact number of visits was not recorded. Line values classify the visiting relation as ordinary (value one), visits among kin (value two), and visits among ritual kin, i.e., between god-parent and god-child.
The investigators proposed an ethnographic classification of the families into six family-friendship groupings on substantive criteria. In rural areas where there is little opportunity to move up and down the social ladder social groups are usually based on family relations. This is the vertex attribute {tt grouping}.
data(AttiroVisiting)
Use data(package="netdata") to get a full list of networks.
If the source of the data set does not specified otherwise, this data set is protected by the Creative Commons License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/.
When publishing results obtained using this data set the original authors should be cited. In addition this package should be cited as:
Mark S. Handcock, David Hunter, Carter T. Butts, Steven M. Goodreau,
and Martina Morris. 2003
statnet: An R package for the Statistical Modeling of Social Networks
http://www.csde.washington.edu/statnet
and the source should be cited as:
{Vladimir Batagelj and Andrej Mrvar (2006):} Pajek datasets
http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/data/.
http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/data/esna/visits.htm
See link above.
SanJuanSurVisiting, SanJuanSurDeathMessage, network, sna