These measures vary substantially across areas, but are not highly correlated with each other. ![]() We measure and analyse three types of social capital by ZIP (postal) code in the United States: (1) connectedness between different types of people, such as those with low versus high socioeconomic status (SES) (2) social cohesion, such as the extent of cliques in friendship networks and (3) civic engagement, such as rates of volunteering. Here, in the first of a pair of papers 9, we use data on 21 billion friendships from Facebook to study social capital. However, efforts to understand what types of social capital matter for these outcomes have been hindered by a lack of social network data. Social capital-the strength of an individual’s social network and community-has been identified as a potential determinant of outcomes ranging from education to health 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
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