Description: Economic connectedness index
Additional notes:
Economic connectedness measures the extent to which people with low socioeconomic status and people with high socioeconomic status are friends with each other, as measured through connections on Facebook. Put another way, it captures community members’ exposure to people with different levels of social capital. Specifically, the economic connectedness metric is twice the average share of high-socioeconomic-status friends (i.e., individuals from households ranked in the top half of all income-earning households) among low-socioeconomic-status individuals (i.e., those from households ranked in the lower half of all income-earning households) in a given community.
Years Available: 2022
Variable type: percentage
Files: 11_mobility-metrics_county_longitudinal.csv
61_mobility-metrics_place_longitudinal.csv
11_mobility-metrics_county_longitudinal.csv