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***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** Hi Elisa, This might be of interest to you. The National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) recently completed collection of longitudinal egocentric network data in a nationally representative sample of older Americans. The “important matters” name generator was used to develop baseline network data in 2005/6 from over 3,000 respondents 57-85 years old. In addition to extensive data on ego, we also collected data on each confidant's gender, relation to R, frequency of contact, closeness, coresident status, likelihood of R discussing health with the confidant, and confidant's frequency of contact with each of the other confidants. As for the longitudinal part: In 2010/11, we repeated the network module for the more than 2,200 remaining respondents. After enumerating the W2 roster, respondents were then asked to link their W2 alters to their W1 alters, making it possible to track alter-specific turnover within each network. These data have just recently been made publicly available through the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA), located within ICPSR. A forthcoming paper that describes the survey procedure and some resulting data and findings is: Cornwell, Benjamin, and Edward O. Laumann. "The Health Benefits of Network Growth: New Evidence from a National Survey of Older Adults." Social Science & Medicine. In press. There will also be a paper in a special issue dedicated to NSHAP in the Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, but that is still some time away. Contact me if you are interested in advance drafts of either of these. Best, Ben Cornwell -- Benjamin Cornwell Assistant Professor of Sociology 354 Uris Hall Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853 _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.