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Research note - How do Malaysian university students form social ties

9 Sep 2024

Despite the importance of studying the social tie formation behaviour of individuals and its implications on the social fabric of a nation, there is a paucity of empirical analysis of social networks in Malaysia.6,7 This research note aims to fill this gap by studying what how Malaysian university students form social ties. [...] 5: Odds of a social tie increase for two individuals of the same ethnicity across all types of ties in UM and for the closeness tie in UNM Odds ratios of the ethnic homophily term for the four social ties in both university samples Source: Author’s estimates based on complete network data generated through a self-administered survey. [...] On the other hand, 19 out of 21 eligible respondents in the Economics Year 3 class in UNM entered the survey, which means that the results likely paint an accurate picture of social relations in the class. [...] These can be interpreted as the increase in the odds of observing the given network in response to two individuals sharing the same characteristic, be it ethnicity, gender or speaking the same language, holding the rest of the network fixed. [...] The lack of variation in the data may have conflated the effect of SMK on ethnic homophily with the effect of ethnic homophily itself.
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28
Published in
Malaysia

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