ffe: Kadushin The French Financial Elite

In zalmquist/networkdata: Lin Freeman's Network Data Collection

Description

ffe: three 28 by 28 matrices.

ACKGROUND In 1990 Kadushin collected data from 127 members of the French financial elite. He used various criteria to determine the top 28 and recorded their who-to-whom responses to questions about who was influencential, who were members of the elite and who were friends. He also recorded a large amount of information on their individual backgrounds and characteristics.

Usage

data(ffe)

Details

INFLUENCE (WHO INFLUENCES YOU): non-symmetric, binary.
ELITE (WHO IS IN THE ELITE): non-symmetric, binary.
FRIEND (WHO ARE YOUR FRIENDS): symmetric, binary.

Attributes

birthdate
birthplace
sciencepoly
polytech
polyyear
university
normal-sch
ena
enayear
inspec-gen
igyear
cabinet
finance-min
party
religion
masons
zipcode
socialreg
elitevote
eliteprom
prestige
fathers-lev
clubs
topboards

Source

Kadushin, C. 1995. Friendship among the French financial elite. American Sociological Review 60:202-221.

Examples

data(ffe)

####plot
plot(ffe$INFLUENCE)

## Vertex attributes
ffe$ELITE%v%"birthdate"

### Adjacency Matrix
ffe$ELITE[,]

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