General Social Survey - Social Identity (SI)

Frequency of in-person contact with relatives of person, category

Frequency of in-person contact with relatives refers to the frequency with which a person had in-person (face-to-face) contact with relatives in a given month. This excludes contact with persons with whom he or she lived at that time.

Person refers to an individual and is the unit of analysis for most social statistics programs.

The data for this variable are reported using the following classifications and/or lists:

• Frequency of Contact with Friends or Relatives