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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2016 Jul 28;166:137–149. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.07.035

Table 2.

Matrix Showing Frequency of Unconnected or Poorly Connected Kin by Alters' Relationship to Respondent (Unweighted).a

Alter
Relationship to
Respondent
Spouse Child Parent Sibling In-Law Other
Relative
Spouse --
Child 1 (3) 18 (25)
Parent 2 (2) 5 (7) 0
Sibling 16 (17) 83 (146) 0 4 (4)
In-Law 5 (5) 28 (48) 2 (2) 29 (42) 9 (13)
Other Relative 8 (10) 34 (57) 0 16 (21) 9 (10) 7 (8)
a

Frequencies are based on those respondents with non-missing data on all key variables and who are included in the final models presented in Table 3. Numbers outside parentheses represent the number of respondents that occupy bridging positions between at least one pair of the respective types of kin. Numbers in parentheses represent the total number of unconnected or poorly connected pairs of type in the final sample. (These numbers can be higher than those outside of the parentheses because some individuals report more than one disconnected pair of a given type in their network. For example, a spouse that does not speak with either of their two children would bridge two spouse-child pairs).