This dataset contains the data used in Valente et al. (2013) to study the
influence of peers on adolescent smoking, drinking, and marijuana use. The
valentesnsList is a transformed version of the data ready to be used to
create defm objects.
valentesnsThe valentesns dataset has 1,722 records for 568 individuals, featuring the
following 18 columns:
id: Id of the individual.
year: Wave number.
Hispanic: Indicator variable equal to 1 if the individual is Hispanic.
Female: Indicator variable equal to 1 if the individual is female.
Grades: Academic grades ranging from 1 (mostly F) to 5 (mostly As).
tobacco: Indicator variable if the individual ever smoked tobacco.
alcohol: Indicator variable if the individual ever drink alcohol.
mj: : Indicator variable if the individual ever smoked marijuana.
sibsmoke : Indicator variable if the individual's sibling smokes.
sibdrink: Indicator variable if the individual's sibling drinks alcohol.
adultdrink: Indicator variable equal to one if there's an adult who
drinks in the household.
year_value: Year of the survey.
present: Indicator variable equal to 1 if the individual was present.
school: School id.
has_sib: Indicator variable equal to 1 if the individual has siblings.
exposure_smoke: Proportion of friends who have smoked tobacco in the
past.
exposure_drink: Proportion of friends who have drink alcohol in the
past.
exposure_mj: Proportion of friends who have smoked marijuana in the
past.
Exposure variables are marked with -1 for each individuals' first wave.
Valente, T. W., Fujimoto, K., Unger, J. B., Soto, D. W., & Meeker, D. (2013). Variations in network boundary and type: A study of adolescent peer influences. Social Networks, 35(3), 309–316. doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2013.02.008.