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Table 4 Characteristics of the social networks of the three sites

From: Networks to strengthen community social capital for suicide prevention in regional Australia: the LifeSpan suicide prevention initiative

Network metric

Site Alpha

Site Beta

Site Gamma

Density of collaboration network

0.05

0.10

0.10

Number of respondents reporting their ties

26

46

12

Number of people shown in the network

107

61

85

Number of ties reported (total)

536

438

108

Number of new ties to people they did not know pre-network (%)

380 (71%)

307 (70%)

51 (47%)

Number of people nominated from outside our list of identified collaborators

4

4

10

Average degree

5.2

4.9

3.3