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Science and Drug Policy 2003-04 Speaker Series

Egocentric Network Analysis

Chris McCarty, Survey Director at the University of Florida Survey Research Center (UFSRC)

February 7, 2003

About the Speaker

Christopher McCarty is a Survey Director of the University of Florida Survey Research Center (UFSRC), a 70 station CATI lab that specializes in large-scale health-related surveys. The UFSRC is among the largest university-based surveys in the country and conducts surveys for the state of Florida and for other states. McCarty has also served as a consultant on survey topics in the Republic of Ghana, the Republic of Mali, and Mexico. Over the past 20 years McCarty has had an active research agenda in the area of social networks, specializing in egocentric network research. These include the Reverse Small World, the Network Scale-up Method and extensive research into egocentric network elicitation techniques. McCarty's most recent interests have focused on structure in egocentric networks and how that relates to behavioral outcomes. He has developed a data elicitation and analysis tool (Egonet) that he is using to examine the relationship between egocentric network structure, ethnicity and depression. In addition to his interests in survey research and McCarty also has interests in computerized self-paced teaching and the development of comparable economic indicators in developing countries