Estimating household contact matrices structure from easily collectable metadata
Abstract
Contact matrices are a commonly adopted data representation, used to develop compartmental models for epidemic spreading, accounting for the contact heterogeneities across age groups. Their estimation, however, is generally time and effort consuming and model-driven strategies to quantify the contacts are often needed. In this article we focus on household contact matrices, describing the contacts among the members of a family and develop a parametric model to describe them. This model combines demographic and easily quantifiable survey-based data and is tested on high resolution proximity data collected in two sites in South Africa. Given its simplicity and interpretability, we expect our method to be easily applied to other contexts as well and we identify relevant questions that need to be addressed during the data collection procedure.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2210.07034,
title = {Estimating household contact matrices structure from easily collectable metadata},
author = {Lorenzo Dall'Amico and Jackie Kleynhans and Laetitia Gauvin and Michele Tizzoni and Laura Ozella and Mvuyo Makhasi and Nicole Wolter and Brigitte Language and Ryan G. Wagner and Cheryl Cohen and Stefano Tempia and Ciro Cattuto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.07034},
year = {2024}
}