Table 2.

Mean number of previously- and newly-listed ties at wave 3, overall and by type of tie (weighted)

	Young cohort	Old cohort
Aggregated person-level
Mean (SD)
Previously-listed	6.88 (2.94)	7.45 (3.01)
Newly-listed	3.42 (2.32)	2.91^*** (2.35)
Truly new	1.83 (1.79)	.85^*** (1.28)
Awakened	1.56 (1.66)	1.98^*** (1.98)
N Respondents	382	558
Alter-level
% Newly-listed ties (out of total number of ties)	34.7	29.0^***
% Type of newly-listed tie (out of all newly-listed)
Truly new	53.3	29.1^***
Awakened	45.4	67.9^***
Other^a	1.2	3.0^***
Total	100	100
N Ties	4,080	5,861

Note: Young cohort refers to 21–30 year-olds and old cohort to 50–70 year-olds at wave 1

The “other” category includes responses that did not fit the “new” or “awakened” categories in the open-ended follow-up question.

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.

^***

p < .001 (two-tailed tests) for differences by age group