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Facebook Social Connectedness Index

Source Facebook
Contributor Facebook
Date of Dataset August 27, 2020-August 27, 2020
Updated 25 March 2021
Expected Update Frequency As needed
Location
Albania,  Algeria,  Angola,  Antigua And Barbuda,  Argentina,  Armenia,  Aruba,  Australia,  Austria,  Azerbaijan,  Bahamas,  Bahrain,  Bangladesh,  Barbados,  Belarus,  Belgium,  Belize,  Benin,  Bhutan,  Bolivia (Plurinational State of),  Bosnia And Herzegowina,  Botswana,  Brazil,  Brunei Darussalam,  Bulgaria,  Burkina Faso,  Burundi,  Cabo Verde,  Cambodia,  Cameroon,  Canada,  Cayman Islands,  Central African Republic,  Chad,  Chile,  Colombia,  Comoros,  Congo,  Costa Rica,  Croatia,  Curaçao,  Cyprus,  Czechia,  Côte d'Ivoire,  Democratic Republic of the Congo,  Denmark,  Djibouti,  Dominican Republic,  Ecuador,  Egypt,  El Salvador,  Equatorial Guinea,  Estonia,  Eswatini,  Ethiopia,  Fiji,  Finland,  France,  French Guiana,  French Polynesia,  Gabon,  Gambia,  Georgia,  Germany,  Ghana,  Greece,  Grenada,  Guadeloupe,  Guam,  Guatemala,  Guinea,  Guinea-Bissau,  Guyana,  Haiti,  Honduras,  Hong Kong,  Hungary,  Iceland,  India,  Indonesia,  Ireland,  Isle of Man,  Italy,  Jamaica,  Japan,  Jersey,  Jordan,  Kazakhstan,  Kenya,  Kiribati,  Korea, Republic Of,  Kuwait,  Kyrgyzstan,  Lao People's Democratic Republic,  Latvia,  Lebanon,  Lesotho,  Liberia,  Libya,  Lithuania,  Luxemburg,  Macau,  Madagascar,  Malawi,  Malaysia,  Maldives,  Mali,  Malta,  Martinique,  Mauritania,  Mauritius,  Mayotte,  Mexico,  Moldova, Republic Of,  Mongolia,  Montenegro,  Morocco,  Mozambique,  Myanmar,  Namibia,  Nepal,  Netherlands,  New Caledonia,  New Zealand,  Nicaragua,  Niger,  Nigeria,  North Macedonia,  Norway,  Oman,  Pakistan,  Panama,  Papua New Guinea,  Paraguay,  Peru,  Philippines,  Poland,  Portugal,  Puerto Rico,  Qatar,  Reunion,  Romania,  Rwanda,  Saint Lucia,  Saint Vincent And The Grenadines,  Samoa,  Sao Tome And Principe,  Saudi Arabia,  Senegal,  Serbia,  Seychelles,  Sierra Leone,  Singapore,  Slovakia (Slovak Republic),  Slovenia,  Solomon Islands,  South Africa,  Spain,  Sri Lanka,  Suriname,  Sweden,  Switzerland,  Taiwan, Province Of China,  Tajikistan,  Thailand,  Timor-Leste,  Togo,  Tonga,  Trinidad And Tobago,  Tunisia,  Turkey,  Uganda,  Ukraine,  United Arab Emirates,  United Kingdom,  United Republic of Tanzania,  United States,  Uruguay,  Uzbekistan,  Vanuatu,  Viet Nam,  World,  Zambia,  Zimbabwe
Visibility
Public
License Public Domain / No Restrictions
Methodology

We use an anonymized snapshot of all active Facebook users and their friendship networks to measure the intensity of connectedness between locations. The Social Connectedness Index (SCI) is a measure of the social connectedness between different geographies. Specifically, it measures the relative probability that two individuals across two locations are friends with each other on Facebook.

Details on the underlying data and the construction of the index are provided in the “Facebook Social Connectedness Index - Data Notes.pdf” file. Please also see https://dataforgood.fb.com/ as well as the associated research paper “Social Connectedness: Measurement, Determinants and Effects,” published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives (https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.32.3.259).
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social media data
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