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Do Men Discuss Birth Control? A Social Network Analysis in Bangladesh

By: Bhanu Bhatia  
Open Access
|Mar 2019

Figures & Tables

Figure 1:

Social network in Cluster A*
Social network in Cluster A*

Figure 2:

Social network in Cluster B
Social network in Cluster B

Figure 3:

Social network in Cluster C*
Social network in Cluster C*

Figure 4:

Social network in Cluster D
Social network in Cluster D

Basic network structure indicators for each cluster

Government programmeICDDR,B programme
Cluster ACluster BCluster CCluster D
Observation8310614596
Isolates3131
Number of components (>2 actors)3231
Mean no. of connections2.22.33.52.7
Proportion of actors with one connection*47.0%50.0%23.4%36.5%
Density (std. dev.)0.30.20.40.2
(0.4)(0.3)(0.3)(0.3)
Total number of bi-components > 2 actors5484
% of actors in bi-components of > 2 actors32.5%36.8%74.5%56.3%
No. of nodes acting as cut points in bi-components of > 2 actors1133
No. of nodes acting as cut points29322825

Centrality

Government programmeICDDR,B programme
Cluster ACluster BCluster CCluster D
Degree centrality (std. dev.)2.2 (1.6)2.3 (1.7)3.5 (2.3)2.7 (1.8)
Max. degree centrality score67129
Group degree centrality4.7%4.6%3.0%6.8%

Percentage of females in each male social network

Government programme% of femalesICDDRB programme% of females
Cluster A2.40%Cluster C22.06%
Cluster B20.80%Cluster D5.20%

Homophily

Government programmeICDDR,B programme
Cluster ACluster BCluster CCluster D
Pearson’s correlation between age and social connections−0.13* −0.09* −0.08* −0.06*
Pearson’s correlation between education and social connections−0.04** −0.01−0.05* −0.06*
Proportion of connections to non-relatives66%53%50%64%
Proportion of connections outside the village29%41%32%33%
Pearson’s correlation between a bari residence and social connections0.14* 0.13* 0.30* 0.13*
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/joss-2019-002 | Journal eISSN: 1529-1227 | Journal ISSN: 2300-0422
Language: English
Page range: 1 - 19
Published on: Mar 27, 2019
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2019 Bhanu Bhatia, published by International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA)
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License.

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