
Christofer Edling
Professor

The effects of specific occupations in position generator measures of social capital
Författare
Summary, in English
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.
Avdelning/ar
- Sociologi
Publiceringsår
2015
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
55-63
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Social Networks
Volym
40
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Elsevier
Ämne
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Nyckelord
- social capital
- position generator
- measurement error
- Jack-knife
- sociologi
- sociology
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0378-8733