Facebook Social Connectedness Index Analyzed
Meta's Social Connectedness Index (SCI): the relative probability that two Facebook users in two places are friends, scaled so that the most connected pair is 1,000,000,000. This package is the release distributed on HDX, at several resolutions: country to country, GADM level 1 and 2 regions, geoBoundaries ADM1 and ADM2, EU NUTS 1 to 3 (2024), US counties and US ZIP code tabulation areas, with region-to-country lookups and the methodology paper. Suitable for research on social ties, migration, trade and economic spillovers between regions.
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