kfamily: Korean Family Planning

Description

From Valente (1995) “Scholars at Seoul National University's School of Public Health (Park, Chung, Han & Lee, 1974) collected data on the adoption of family planning methods among all married women of child-bearing age 25 in Korea villages in 1973 (N = 1,047).”

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 1,047 rows and 432 columns:

Source

The Korean Family Planning data were stored on a Vax tape that Rogers had given to Marc Granovetter who then gave it to his colleague Roland Soong (see Granovetter & Soong, 1983). Granovetter instructed Song to send the tape to me and I had it loaded on the Vax machine at USC in 1990 and was able to download the data to a PC. The first two datasets were acquired for my dissertation (Valente, 1991) and the third added as I completed my book on Network Models of the Diffusion of Innovations (Valente, 1995; also see Valente, 2005).

Details

The dataset has 1,047 respondents (women) from 25 communities. Collected during 1973 it spans 11 years of data.

References

Everett M. Rogers, & Kincaid, D. L. (1981). Communication Networks: Toward a New Paradigm for Research. (C. Macmillan, Ed.). New York; London: Free Press.

Valente, T. W. (1995). Network models of the diffusion of innovations (2nd ed.). Cresskill N.J.: Hampton Press.