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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jul 21.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Networks. 2019 Sep 24;61:78–86. doi: 10.1016/j.socnet.2019.08.008

Table 2.

Wave 1 Alters by Fate in Wave 2: Listed and Dropped, and by Reason for Drop (weighted).

Fate of Alters Listed in W1 TOTAL Immed. Kinc Extended Kin Non-Kin
 Listed in W2 .537 .806 .451 .437
 Not Listed in W2 .463 .194 .549 .563
Total of W1 Alters 9678 2609 1032 5985
Reason W1 Alter Not in W2
 Forgottena .412 .623 .571 .355
 Died .022 .085 .035 .011
 Disagreement / Breakup .055 .039 .063 .057
 Drifted Apart .125 .063 .028 .150
 Someone Moved .128 .043 .069 .150
 Other Life Eventb .071 .026 .034 .085
 No Occasion to Get Together .166 .101 .173 .175
 Miscellaneous Answers .020 .020 .026 .018
Total of w1 Alters Not in W2 4477 507 567 3370
Treating Forgotten as Retained
 Died .038 .225 .082 .017
 Disagreement / Breakup .094 .105 .160 .088
 Drifted Apart .212 .168 .066 .233
 Someone Moved .219 .115 .160 .233
 Other Life Eventb .121 .068 .078 .131
 No Occasion to Get Together .283 .267 .403 .272
 Miscellaneous Answers .034 .052 .062 .027
Total of W1 Alters Not in W2 and Not Forgotten 2631 191 243 2175

Notes:

a.

Includes 11 alters for whom respondents said that there were not enough spaces to list them.

b.

Includes 51 alters with “someone’s health” as the answer.

c.

Spouse, parent, child, or sibling.