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Table 2 Homophily for sex, age, intravenous drug use, and HCV screening and serology

From: Associating conditional cash transfer to universal access to treatment could be the solution to the HCV epidemic among drug users (DUs)

 

Homophily

Male

0.093

Female

− 0.137

Age

 < 20

0.198

 20–29

0.08

 30–39

0.114

 40–49

0.073

 > 50

0.054

Non-IVDU

0.135

IVDU

0.118

HCV screening+ HCV+

0.159

HCV screening+ HCV−

0.125

HCV screening−

0.154

  1. Homophily refers to the tendency to recruit in the same category with a metric between 1 (recruited and recruits in the same category) and − 1 (recruited and recruits in a different category). Heckathorn suggests any value of homophily ≥ 0.3 as intermediate homophily and any value ≤ − 0.3 as strong heterophily
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