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Dear all & Robert,

The question about homophily for attributes over which the actors have
control is central to the paper
Steglich, C.E.G., Snijders, T.A.B. and Pearson, M.  Dynamic Networks and
Behavior: Separating Selection from Influence.
To be published, Sociological Methodology, 2010.
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~snijders/siena/SteglichSnijdersPearson2009.pdf

Two very small data sets that satisfy your requirements are the Knecht
and the s50 data sets at
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~snijders/siena/siena_datasets.htm

Best wishes,
Tom

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> Dear list members,
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> A colleague and I are looking for social network datasets where actors 
> exhibit homophily i.e. similar individuals more likely to form network 
> ties with one another.  We are only interested in homophily over 
> attributes which can be chosen by the actors - political affiliation 
> (right/left) and brand preference (e.g. over music, consumer items) 
> are good examples.  An example of a network dataset we are already 
> working with is the hyperlink network of approx. 1500 political 
> bloggers (coded as conservative or liberal) from Adamic, L. and 
> Glance, N. (2005) "The political blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. 
> election: Divided they blog".
> 
> I will be happy to post back to this list the details of 
> publicly-available network datasets (fitting the criterion) that we 
> find out about.  If you have a dataset that is not publicly available, 
> we of course would be happy to give appropriate attribution if we can 
> use it in our research.
> 
> Rob
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