Reconstructing social mixing patterns via weighted contact matrices from online and representative surveys.

ABSTRACT: The unprecedented behavioural responses of societies have been evidently shaping the COVID-19 pandemic, yet it is a significant challenge to accurately monitor the continuously changing social mixing patterns in real-time. Contact matrices, usually stratified by age, summarise interaction motifs efficiently, but their collection relies on conventional representative survey techniques, which are expensive and slow to obtain. Here we report a data collection effort involving over [Formula: see text] of the Hungarian population to simultaneously record contact matrices through a longitudinal online and sequence of representative phone surveys. To correct non-representative biases characterising the online data, by using census data and the representative samples we develop a reconstruction me

SUBMITTER: Koltai J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8931780 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature