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Table 2 Ego Network Characteristics Based on 6 Alters

Characteristic	Total
Percent of alters - family	42
Percent of alters - friend	15
Percent of alters - neighbor	26
Percent of discussions - health	33
Number of years have known alters	20.8 (7.4)
Frequency of communication with alters^a	1.6 (0.5)
Distance between alters^b	0.6 (0.4)
Density^c	0.8 (0.3)
Degree centrality	4.2 (1.3)
Betweenness centrality	0.2 (0.4)

Notes: Columns in mean values (SD) for continuous variables and percentages for categorical variables
^aFrequency of communication with alters, 1 = “daily”; 2 = “1 time/week”; 3 = “2 times/week”; 4 = “3 times/week”
^bDistance between alters, 0 = “less than 5 km”; 1 = “more than 5 km”
^cDensity calculated based on the mean of the closeness variable between each alter pair (0 = “no tie”; 1 = “tie”)

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