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This network represents the connection between 39 wemen of a Korean village. A line indicates that two women discussed family planning.
The network contains no arcs, no loops and no line values.

Background:

In the 1970s, Rogers and Kincaid studied the diffusion of family planning methods in twenty-four villages in the Republic of Korea.
This network contains the communication networks among women in a village in which family planning was not adopted widely.
Another simmilar network is the Korea 1 network.

Network image:

History:

• Original author: D. Lawrence Kincaid (1945, lkincaid@jhuccp.org ; Senior Advisor for the Research and Evaluation Division and Associate Scientist in the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) & Everett Mitchell Rogers (Professor and Chair, Department of Communication & Journalism, University of New Mexico, erogers@unm.edu)
• Data compiled into Pajek data files by W. de Nooy, 2001.

References:

• DE.M. Rogers & D.L. Kincaid, Communication Networks. Toward a New Paradigm for Research (New York: The Free Press, 1981).
• W. de Nooy, A. Mrvar, & V. Batagelj, Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), Chapter 6.

More information:

• http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/data/esna/korea.htm
• http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/book/esna2.htm