polymod: Social contact data from 8 European countries (imported from...

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Social contact data from 8 European countries (imported from socialmixr)

Description

A dataset containing social mixing diary data from 8 European countries: Belgium, Germany, Finland, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and Poland.

Usage

polymod

Format

A list of two data frames:

participants

the study participant, with age, country, year and day of the week (starting with 1 = Monday)

contacts

reported contacts of the study participants. The variable phys_contact has two levels (1 denotes physical contact while 2 denotes non-physical contact), duration_multi has five levels (1 is less than 5 minutes while 5 is more than 4 hours, increasing in the order found in Figure 1 in Mossong et al.), and frequency_multi has five levels (1 is daily, 2 is weekly, 3 is monthly, 4 is less often, and 5 is first time)

All other variables are described on the Zenodo repository of the data, available at \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.5281/zenodo.1043437")}

Details

This data has been sourced from the socialmixr package.

The Data are fully described in Mossong J, Hens N, Jit M, Beutels P, Auranen K, Mikolajczyk R, et al. (2008) Social Contacts and Mixing Patterns Relevant to the Spread of Infectious Diseases. PLoS Med 5(3): e74.

Source

\Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1371/journal.pmed.0050074")}

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