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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2019 Jan 1;80(1):24–30. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000001886

Table 4.

Network characteristics of sample, stratified by race and ethnicity, RADAR, Chicago 2015–2017 (N = 1015)

Black White Latino Other p-value

Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD)

Transitivity1
    All sex tiesa 0.25 (0.39) 0.41 (0.39) 0.32 (0.41) 0.35 (0.46) <0.001
Density2
    All sex tiesa 0.58 (0.32) 0.40 (0.30) 0.50 (0.31) 0.45 (0.31) <0.001
Homophily (Race) 0.62 (0.55) 0.36 (0.56) 0.15 (0.49) -0.04 (0.23) <0.001
# of Concurrent Partnersb 0.06 (0.34) 0.14 (0.51) 0.06 (0.37) 0.08 (0.40) 0.029
Multiplexity
    Sex - Social 0.13 (0.17) 0.16 (0.13) 0.15 (0.14) 0.13 (0.14) 0.602
    Sex - Drug 0.22 (0.25) 0.19 (0.22) 0.22 (0.24) 0.19 (0.23) 0.767
a.

Includes all alters in sexual network

b.

Concurrent partners 3 months prior to interview

1.

Transitivity = average number of sex ties between alters

2.

Density = ratio of number of sex ties out of all possible ties