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A comparative study of contact frequencies among social network members in five countries
(2020)As face-to-face and ICT-mediated social interaction patterns are relevant to explain (social) travel behavior, the objective of this paper is to study comparatively the factors that influence social interaction frequency via different communication modes. The analysis is based on seven recent data collections on personal social networks from Canada, Chile, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Japan. A multilevel-multivariate mixed model that ...Conference Paper -
The spatiality of personal networks in four countries
(2012)Acknowledging the relevance of social networks on (social) travel behavior, the objective of this paper is to study comparatively the distance patterns between the home locations of social contacts. Analyses are based on five recent personal network data collections from four countries: Canada, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Chile. Multilevel models, which explicitly account for the hierarchical structure of the data sets, are used to ...Conference Paper -