State of Social Connections Study

2022 State of Social Connections Study
Meta-Gallup State of Social Connections Study

Gallup Data Collector
Meta Platforms, Inc. Other

2023-06-22

v1

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3886/3857-0854

Published

This dataset has two levels of access: Public and Restricted.

• Public files can be downloaded directly from the dataset record. Typically, documentation files such as READMEs and codebooks are made public.
• Restricted data files require a Restricted Data Application and will typically be accessed through a secure virtual data enclave. Learn more about applying for restricted data.

Gallup and Meta Platforms, Inc. State of Social Connections Study. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-06-22. https://doi.org/10.3886/3857-0854

Datasets
Facebook

2022-04, 2022-06

2022-04, 2022-06

Brazil
India
Indonesia
Mexico
United States
Egypt
France

Facebook

telephone interview
face-to-face interview

survey data

Connections with other people are essential to people’s well-being and mental health. Social isolation is consistently found to be a risk factor associated with key well-being indicators, such as how quickly people heal from physical ailments, how well they maintain cognitive health as they age and how long they live. While academic literature has long validated the importance of human connections, there has been little research that provides representative, multinational data on how connected people feel and how they connect with others. More governments, organizations, and companies are turning their attention to understanding the nature and impact of people’s social connections, driving heightened interest in, and need for, such research.

To address this gap, Gallup, Meta and a group of academic advisors collaborated to design and conduct the State of Social Connections Study, which offers a first look at how social connections vary across different geographic regions. This report describes results from a detailed survey administered through face-to-face or phone interviews with people ages 15 and older in seven countries spanning diverse global regions.

Survey respondents were obtained through nationally representative probability sampling.

People aged 15+ in the 7 countries covered by the study.

probability

Data weighting was used to minimize bias in survey-based estimates to ensure samples were nationally representative for each country. Weights are intended to be used for generating estimates within each country. The weighting procedure was formulated based on the sample design in each country and performed in multiple stages.

individual

Data for this study does not require use of a virtual data enclave. Direct access to individual-level survey responses will be provided after ICPSR approves researchers' Restricted Data Application describing how the data is necessary for their research question. Data cannot be used to reidentify respondents.

Meta-Gallup State of Social Connections Study, Report, Is Source Of, URL, https://www.gallup.com/analytics/402911/state-of-social-connections-study.aspx