The effects of specific occupations in position generator measures of social capital
Hällsten, Martin ; Edling, Christofer LU
and Rydgren, Jens
(2015)
In Social Networks
40.
p.55-63
- Abstract
- The position generator is a widespread method for measuring latent social capital in which respondents are queried about contacts on a list of occupations predefined by the analyst. We separate out the unique contribution of each occupation to aggregated measures of social capital. It turns out that this contribution varies vastly: knowing a person in some occupations provides substance to measures of social capital, while knowing a person in a few occupations is irrelevant and contributes statistical noise and causes attenuation bias. We discuss the implication of our findings for the design of position generator measures generally.
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- author
- Hällsten, Martin
; Edling, Christofer
LU
and Rydgren, Jens
- organization
- publishing date
- 2015
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- social capital, position generator, measurement error, Jack-knife, sociologi, sociology
- in
- Social Networks
- volume
- 40
- pages
- 55 - 63
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- wos:000347585500006
- scopus:84907480578
- ISSN
- 0378-8733
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.socnet.2014.06.002
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 8a7846cf-22bb-4b15-9a22-0a0598e28e6d (old id 4617221)
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