Table III.

Social network characteristics of FSWs living with HIV (N=51)¹

	Drug Users (N=16)				Non-Drug users (N=35)				Test Statistic	df
	Mean	SD	Range	Average proportion of total	Mean	SD	Range	Average proportion of total
Network degreea	11.06	2.74	7–15	1.00	11.49	3.33	5–15	1.00	0.44	49
Network densityb	0.50	0.32	0–1	--	0.57	0.24	0–1	--	0.91	49
Network E-I statisticc (drug)	0.08	0.32	−0.5–0.8	--	−0.77	−0.68	−1–0.07	--	−6.13**	49
Drug network	5.13	2.47	1–9	0.46	1.37	1.93	0–8	0.12	−5.90**	49
Use drugs with network	2.50	1.90	0–7	0.23	--	--	--	--	--	--
Alcohol network	9.00	2.97	5–15	0.81	9.66	3.69	2–15	0.84	0.53	49
Social support network	4.31	2.18	1–8	0.39	5.37	2.91	1–13	0.47	1.30	49
Economic network	1.94	1.57	0–6	0.18	3.11	1.43	0–6	0.27	2.65*	49
Sex network	3.94	2.08	1–9	0.36	4.00	1.83	1–8	0.35	0.11	49
Sex and drug network	2.38	1.88	0–6	0.21	0.80	1.23	0–6	0.07	−3.59**	49
No. HIV-positive in network	1.69	2.15	0–8	0.15	2.11	2.39	0–9	0.18	0.61	49
No. family in network	2.56	2.28	0–9	0.23	3.31	2.07	0–9	0.29	1.17	49
No. friends in network	3.94	2.41	0–10	0.36	3.51	2.28	0–9	0.31	−0.60	49
No. sex workers in network	2.81	2.17	0–8	0.25	1.97	2.08	0–7	0.17	−1.32	49
No. neighbors in network	0.56	0.96	0–3	0.05	1.09	2.29	0–12	0.09	1.15	49
No. male in network	5.19	2.61	2–11	0.47	6.02	2.55	2–11	0.52	1.08	49
Length of time known (years)	12.52	12.53	1–46	--	14.30	13.53	1–56	--	1.30	49
Relationship strength to altersd	1.88	0.81	1–3	--	1.77	0.78	1–3	--	−0.98	49

¹Categories of relationships are not mutually exclusive;

^aDegree, total network size

^bDensity, proportion of ties that exist in a network relative to the total number of possible ties

^cE-I statistic, ego’s propensity to have ties with alters in the same group or class as self with scores closer to −1 representing greater homophily on the grouping characteristic and scores of 1 representing greater heterogeneity on the grouping characteristic

^dScore range from 1 to 3 with ‘1=very close’ ‘2=sort of close’ ‘3=not close’.

^*p<0.01

^**p<0.001.

Notes. FSW=Female sex workers; df= degrees of freedom; Means based on non-missing data (<10% missing on any variable).