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Fu, Yang-chih. "Daily Contact as A Proxy Measure of Personal Networks: Data from 45 Surveys in Nine Societies" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association For Public Opinion Association, Fontainebleau Resort, Miami Beach, FL, <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p16779_index.html>

Fu, Y. "Daily Contact as A Proxy Measure of Personal Networks: Data from 45 Surveys in Nine Societies" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association For Public Opinion Association, Fontainebleau Resort, Miami Beach, FL <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p16779_index.html

Publication Type: Paper/Poster Proposal Abstract: It has been difficult to measure personal networks in surveys, largely because network boundaries constantly change and often remain vague. Most preexisting network proxies are sophisticated and tedious to administer. Under practical constraints, it usually becomes costly and intimidating to ask about personal networks even in well-administered face-to-face surveys. As a result, many surveys have been unable to come up with succinct items of networks, even though such information may greatly help one understand many important topics. To bridge the gap, this paper presents a simple and straightforward network proxy -- daily contact, which can be used as a stand-alone survey item and extended to further explore derivative issues. The item asks for an approximate number of persons the respondent makes contact with in a typical day. The answer includes six ordinal categories. Since it was first implemented in the fieldwork in 1992, the proxy has been modified to stipulate what kinds of situations qualify as "contacts", the response categories have been adjusted to accommodate various situations, and the answers have approximated normal distributions in most surveys. Over the past decade, this “daily contact” item has been incorporated into 45 surveys in nine countries/societies (including China, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Poland, Taiwan, and U.S.A.) The paper will present and compare findings from 21 face-to-face surveys, 18 telephone surveys, and 6 self-administered surveys, with a combined sample size of over 60,000. Measured against widely used network proxies, not only does such an index of daily contacts correspond closely with the network size that the name generator produces, but it also distinguishes well the network span measured by the position generator, as well as the extent of social participation.

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