Writing – original draft, In actual usage, the translation of a policy into a specific change in contact rates should be supported by evidence, while individual-based simulation models [64] provide a more flexible framework to capture shared contacts between individuals and allows policies such as reactive school closure to be assessed[65]. The reciprocal contact matrices contactmatrix_wallinga and "mossong" uses the average numbers of reported contacts as published The age-specific contact patterns at home (panels a–c), at the workplace (panels d–f), in school (panels g–i) and at other locations (panels j–l) are projected from the model. There were several countries, such as Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso, where we infer a deviation from that pattern as a result of skewed population structure (S1 Text). the matrices from Table S5 (8.2), and the attached age distribution Box 10180 Fort Wayne, IN 46851-0180 USA Phone: +01 (260) 436-1322 Fax: +01 (260) 432-6051 Email: sales@polymod.com The age-specific contact matrices observed in five contact surveys in non-POLYMOD countries were compared against our projected matrices . The household age matrix for South Africa (f) and the age-specific contacts at home for Bolivia (h) and South Africa (i) were projected using the described methods. Heterogeneities in contact networks—in the sense of clustering of contacts within triadic structures and the existence of individuals or groups with many more contacts than average—has been shown in modelling studies (i) to have an effect on determining whether a pathogen can become epidemic [7–9] or can persist at endemic levels [10], (ii) to exert selective pressure for low virulence [11], and (iii) to determine which interventions can possibly mitigate an outbreak [8,12–14] or even eradicate a disease from the population [13]. The quality of the data from the same source is consistent across countries. We grouped all countries into 7 regions according to the World Bank’s definition (East Asia & the Pacific, Europe & Central Asia, Latin America & the Caribbean, the Middle East & North Africa, North America, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa) [42]. To illustrate the proposed methods, we apply these to the POLYMOD social contact … [40]. age distribution of the German POLYMOD sample, and for the _wallinga_ To illustrate some of the results, Germany, Bolivia, and South Africa are arbitrarily selected as country representatives of the POLYMOD, DHS and ROW, respectively. This could be related to biases in contact reporting (Smieszek and others, 2014) with more unreported (short) contacts along the diagonal. For more information about our products, services, seminars or for general information and advice relating to materials for rotational moulding please contact your local Matrix Polymers contacts here - if unsure who to contact you can contact our global head office +44 (0) 1604 789100. sales@matrixpolymers.com. To address the multi-level structure of the data, with repeat measurements of contacts made in different settings by the same individual, we employed Bayesian hierarchical modelling to estimate the proclivity of age-specific and location specific contact patterns in each of the POLYMOD countries, as this provided a flexible framework to estimate both individual-level and population-level parameters. Investigation, This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Writing – original draft, This means that the number and age-profile of contacts outside the home are inherently less well projected by our approach than those within the home. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232701632_POLYMOD_contact_survey_for_researchers. Countries of the world were group into 7 regions (East Asia & Pacific, Europe & Central Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East & North Africa, North America, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa). To this end, a seminal study by Mossong et al. We investigate how an age-structured social contact matrix can be incorporated into a spatio-temporal endemic-epidemic model for infectious disease counts. Although it is preferable for models in such a country to be based on empirical contact data from that country directly, in the absence of such data, modelers have to decide how to modify estimates from another country to fill the gap. size 7.70 MB A vintage analog modular with matrix and SF2 player. 7,290 participants documented their contacts as they occurred on a randomly assigned 24 hour period in a paper diary, including age and gender of contacted person, and the type (physical or nonphysical), duration, location and frequency of the contact. In order to validate the data driven modeling approach at the origin of the synthetic contact matrices we compared our matrices with those obtained by the Polymod project . Contact matrices for India and Bangladesh have additional tertiary bands (S1 Text), suggesting a greater preponderance of three-generation households. Heterogeneities in contact networks have a major effect in determining whether a pathogen can become epidemic or persist at endemic levels. Age-Structured Spatio-Temporal Models for Infectious Disease Counts, ## contact matrix reported in Mossong et al (2008, Table S5), ## this simply returns the dataset 'contactmatrix_mossong', ## with corrected numbers for the 70+ age group (the default), ## this simply returns the dataset 'contactmatrix_POLYMOD', ## compare entries of last row and last column, ## contact matrix estimated to be reciprocal on the population level, ## this simply returns the dataset 'contactmatrix_wallinga', ## visually compare raw to reciprocal contact matrix, ## select physical contacts and aggregate into 5 age groups, ## the default 6 age groups, normalized to a transition matrix, ## reciprocity also holds for this grouping, hhh4contacts: Age-Structured Spatio-Temporal Models for Infectious Disease Counts, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232701632_POLYMOD_contact_survey_for_researchers. for Germany from the POLYMOD survey (Mossong et al., 2008). technical@matrixpolymers.com  Contacts are highly assortative with age across all countries considered, but pronounced regional differences in the age-specific contacts at home were noticeable, with more inter-generational contacts in Asian countries than in other settings. (9). Data curation, If NULL, the original 5-year intervals are returned. This is partly a reflection of the structure found in the POLYMOD survey itself [23], but is also consistent with the much larger DHS surveys which provide detailed data on household structures directly [52]. (2008): Conceptualization, Although we have used contact data only from the POLYMOD to build the global contact matrices, contact studies in Asia, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa (from Viet Nam [25], Taiwan [26], Southern China [27], Peru [28], South Africa [29] and Kenya [30], Russia [31]) found similar evidence of tertiary diagonals in the contact matrices at home. Note that the example data included in the package is part of the UK data (see example below). Darker color intensities indicate more contacts were made. American Journal of Epidemiology, 164 (10), 936-944. contactmatrix_mossong and contactmatrix_mossong_physical While age-mixing patterns shape the transmission of infectious disease [49], analyses of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic [50,51] suggest that it is crucial to account for age-specific susceptibility to infection. and aggregated over the corresponding column (contact) age groups. Conceptualization, We had substantially less data on potential school and work contacts, because direct samples from these environments were not available, even in POLYMOD, and so the approach extrapolated from indirect measures (workforce and school participation rates, teacher to student ratios). POLYMOD, Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), and Rest of the World (ROW) countries) and their data sources are listed in the table. The study illuminated the strong assortativity of social contacts with age, with children in particular driving the early period of an epidemic, a finding that has been reproduced in other studies [24]. A central diagonal is present for all household sizes, indicating assortativity of mixing with age, with secondary diagonals in households with at least 2 members. The original POLYMOD matrices use 15 categories which usually group … they're used to gather information about the pages you visit and how many clicks you need to accomplish a task. (iv) The pupil:teacher ratio in education and the enrolment rates of students at various level of education were obtained from United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Institute for Statistics (UIS). This generates a contact matrix from the UK part of the POLYMOD study, with age groups 0-1, 1-5, 5-15 and 15+ years. Comparison of CoMix and POLYMOD contact matrices and estimated reduction in reproduction number due to physical distancing for all and physical (skin to skin) contacts separately. The mean was for home contacts, for work contacts, for school contacts and for contacts at all other locations. (4). The dataset contactmatrix_POLYMOD and its variants are all As in the original analysis of these data [23], we found that household, workplace and school structures across the world are consistent with age-specific contacts made by individuals, in that they are highly assortative, with much more frequent interactions with others of a similar age group. To determine the weights, we calculated the pairwise Euclidean distances of each of the nine standardized variables of these 135 ROW countries with the 17 POLYMOD/DHS countries. The contact pattern at all locations (panels m–o) is the sum across the four locations (home, work, school and others). i.e. More details are in the S1 Text. Specifically, we projected the HAM of the ROW countries using the weighted mean of the population ratio matrices of the 17 POLYMOD/DHS countries. However, these precise age-dependent patterns differed by location and across the countries we studied. (ii) The population age compositions for all countries of the world were obtained from the United Nations Statistics Division. The parameter was given an hierarchical prior [34] to impose smoothness between successive age groups, i.e. [58] estimated contact matrices for 26 European countries. Merler et al. These social structures vary across countries in different stages of development and with different demographics. Yes Such a matrix Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. or contactmatrix_wallinga_physical as used by Meyer and Held, 2017), related to the age group 70+ (see the Examples) and is the default. The former was expected, but the patterns of contacts in the workplace, with greater heterogeneity in the age of contacts reflecting a more diverse age structure, may provide a route for transmission to spread between families with school-age children and the rest of the population, in a similar way to the bridging role of bisexuals between hetero- and homosexual networks [44]: our estimates assume the same patterns apply in other countries, and future research should validate this. Investigation, These secondary diagonals become more prominent with increasing household sizes. Third, in the absence of empirical contact data in the United States, the results presented in the main text were obtained using the POLYMOD contact matrix in Great Britain. The inference was implemented using Just Another Gibbs Sampler (JAGS) [36] within the R statistical environment (R Core Team, 2013) using the rjags package [37] with 100 000 iterations for each of the eight POLYMOD countries independently and collectively. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Resources, (1) The two have a generally close correspondence, within the constraints of the … Validation with Polymod contact matrices. from Table S2 (3.2). a logical indicating whether to normalize the matrix This study provides estimates of mixing patterns for societies for which contact data such as POLYMOD are not yet available. Similar to the home and school contact patterns, a strong central diagonal band and at times weak secondary diagonals can be observed in the projected contacts made at other (non-home, non-work, non-school) locations. Examples. then averages over the corresponding participant groups (rows) using the persons recorded per day per survey participant in Germany, Diaries of young children were completed by a parent or guardian. Yes grouping. The default setting produces the six age groups of Meyer and Held (2017). However, because the POLYMOD survey collected information on where each contact occurred, a more refined projection can be obtained by incorporating data on household structures, labor-force participation rates, and school enrolment, and separately projecting contacts in different locations. It is unclear to what extent these are due to violations of the assumptions made in this paper, due to differences in study design—such as interviewer- versus self-administered questionnaires, or translation effects—or due to differences between study populations and the country as a whole due to recruitment in a limited geographical area. Yes The original age groups (5-year intervals) can be joined together by the grouping argument, which first sums over contact groups (columns) and then averages over the corresponding … doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050074, Wallinga J, Teunis P and Kretzschmar M (2006): Copyright: © 2017 Prem et al. Data Availability: Projected contact matrices are available in the Supporting Information files. The projected contact matrices for the POLYMOD countries when treated as an ROW country were similar to the POLYMOD contact data, thus validating the ROW procedure. Contact matrix and demography strongly influence the age-dependent incidence of influenza and the success of vaccination. The variable phys_contact has two levels (1 denotes physical contact while 2 denotes non-physical contact), duration_multi has five levels (1 is less than 5 minutes while 5 is more than 4 hours, increasing in the order found in Figure 1 in Mossong et al. The POLYMOD study design has been fully described elsewhere [23]. Those limitations notwithstanding, the projected contact matrices outlined in this paper provide a basis for model-based analyses to inform public health policy making around the world, until comprehensive studies can be carried out that cover a greater fraction of the world’s population. Contact with visitors at home, workplace or school is allowed via background contact parameters, δH, δW and δS. parameters for respiratory-spread infectious agents. e1005697. Visualization, Individuals were connected in a dynamically evolving age-dependent contact network based on the POLYMOD study. Is the Subject Area "Infectious disease epidemiology" applicable to this article? ), and frequency_multi has five levels (1 is daily, 2 is weekly, 3 is monthly, 4 is less often, and 5 is first time) To extend the contact rate model to other countries of the world, we synthesized the POLYMOD data with four other data sources that either inform contact patterns in households, workplaces and schools, or provide a measure of the similarity of countries. Some of these synthetic contact matrices were created for only one country (Hong Kong [56] and Italy [57]), while Ref. These variations led to differences in the effect of social distancing measures in an age structured epidemic model. Evidence for the effect of transmission from children to the elderly comes from Japan, where the cessation of the school influenza vaccination program led to a rise in mortality among the elderly [55]. PLoS Medicine, 5 (3), e74. Modelling and Economics Unit, Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections, London, United Kingdom. (7) specification of how to aggregate groups (a named list or contains the average numbers of reported contacts by participant age group. The two have a generally close correspondence, within the constraints of the small sample sizes when stratified by age in the Kenyan and Vietnamese studies, which lead to relatively large standard errors and more of an apparent discrepancy. PolyMod® Technologies. Germany’s relatively older population leads to more infection among adults than the younger countries of Bolivia and South Africa, and also to a lower effectiveness of school closure (which is modelled to reduce infection rates to ~80% for R0 = 1.2 and less than 20% for R0 = 1.5). here. Meyer S and Held L (2017): Incorporating social contact data in Participants' contacts in CoMix for age groups 0-4 and 5-17 are imputed using the POLYMOD data. No, Is the Subject Area "Age groups" applicable to this article? To validate the ROW procedure, we treated the POLYMOD countries as an ROW country to obtain the projected contact matrices. The original POLYMOD matrices use 15 categories which usually group individuals in 5-year age classes, and have an asymmetric structure, … Contact matrix According to the ages of each respondent–contactor pair, reported contacts were grouped into 15 discrete age groups (0–4, 5–9, …,65–69, and 70years or older). The function contactmatrix retrieves various social contact matricesfor Germany from the POLYMOD survey (Mossong et al., 2008). A: Social contact matrices showing the average total number of daily reported contacts made by participants in different age groups with individuals in other age groups, with results shown for all contacts reported in the CoMix and POLYMOD data. However, school closure and social distancing of younger individuals is expected to be effective in preventing an outbreak entirely in younger populations like Bolivia and South Africa, Workplace distancing has a greater impact on older populations like Germany (preventing an outbreak entirely for R0 = 1.2 and reducing its size by ~50–70% for R0 = 1.5) than younger populations like Bolivia and South Africa (~30–70% for R0 = 1.2 and ~10–50% for R0 = 1.5). On validation, although there were some systematic discrepancies (for instance, the slightly off-center leading diagonal for some Asian countries, which we suspect might be corrected by accounting for gender in future work), this approach reconstructed the empirical household structures with otherwise high accuracy for both the POLYMOD and DHS countries. The second major modelling step was to project from POLYMOD to non-POLYMOD countries the relationship between (i) household structure or workforce/school participation and (ii) contact rates within those locations. Aggregating contact rates from the four locations (home, work, school and others) indicates that the strong central diagonal due to school and home contacts dominates overall contact rates. Polymod currently represents the most accurate and … To account for differences in the mapping due to developmental and social differences, we used a weighted average across POLYMOD/DHS countries, where weights were derived for 152 countries of the world (covering 95.9% of the world’s population) using nine indicators: gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, total fertility rate (TFR), population density, population growth rate, under-five mortality rate (U5MR), health expenditure per capita, life expectancy of males, as a proxy for overall health, Internet penetration rate, and urbanization rate in the country, all standardized by z-scoring. The objective of this paper is to provide projected age-specific contact rates for countries in different stages of development and with different demographic structures to those studied in POLYMOD, which provide validated approximations to social contact patterns when directly measured data are not available. The posterior distributions of the parameters were estimated via Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation [35]. greater tendency of having a household member of that age, higher proclivity of making the age-specific contact. Contact matrices for Bolivia (DHS country; in panels b,e,h,k) and South Africa (ROW country; in panels c,f,i,l) were projected and the age-specific mean contact rates for Germany (part of the POLYMOD; in panels a,d,g,j) were estimated from the German contact data. introduce the use of a so-called kink on the main diagonal of the social contact matrix that can force a sudden increase (or decrease) of the estimated social contact rates for children and young adults of the same age. Funding acquisition, found that spatiotemporal spread of the H1N1 2009 pandemic in Europe were influenced by the age-mixing patterns and social structures [49]. The first main modelling step was the creation of household structures and the demographics of workforce/school participation for countries for which this was not measured. Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases transmitted by the respiratory or close-contact route (e.g., pandemic influenza) is increasingly being used to … To obtain projected regional norms for contact patterns at home we computed the mean contact rates that were projected or inferred earlier within the region weighted by each country’s population size. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005697.s001, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005697.s002. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005697.g005. Graphs were created in the grid package [38] in R. Two forms of validation were conducted. Author(s) in Table S5 of Mossong et al. Methodology, Determining contact patterns within and between different segments of the population is therefore vital to evidence-based prediction and planning with sufficient realism to inform good policy making. No, Is the Subject Area "Home education" applicable to this article? Using data on social contacts to estimate age-specific transmission The variables were arbitrarily selected to span measures of health and social structure (fertility, mortality, growth, and health expenditure), as well as development (income, internet penetration and urbanization). If which="reciprocal" (corresponding to contactmatrix_wallinga There are several assumptions underlying our study. Household level data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for nine lower-income countries and socio-demographic factors from several on-line databases for 152 countries were used to quantify similarity of countries to estimate contact patterns in the home, work, school and other locations for countries for which no contact data are available, accounting for demographic structure, household structure where known, and a variety of metrics including workforce participation and school enrolment. 5 Vcos with 5 waveforms, include the TriSaw, with Phase modulation and Sync (Vco1 only). No, Is the Subject Area "Germany" applicable to this article? Research in social networks has shown that transmissibility, and hence the effectiveness of many interventions, is determined by the intensity of human-to-human interactions [12]. Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore, Roles grouping argument, which first sums over contact groups (columns) and Projecting simulation results from one country to another can, therefore, lead to erroneous results. The infection probability per individual contact per day was calibrated to be 0.03 for the German model by com-paring the simulation output with observed data from the 2006/07 German influenza season [4]). Social contact surveys can greatly help in quantifying the heterogeneous patterns of infectious disease transmission. (5), We then projected the number of teachers by age polymod Social contact data from 8 European countries Description A dataset containing social mixing diary data from 8 European countries: Belgium, Germany, Fin-land, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and Poland. potentially averaged over multiple row (participant) age groups The Fumanelli estimates [58] in particular did not reproduce the narrowness of the leading diagonal in the contact matrix observed in the POLYMOD study, in contrast to our approach (more in the S1 Text). Darker color intensities indicate higher proclivity of making the age-specific contact. E-mail for: Customer Serviceor general inquiries: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. contactmatrix_wallinga_physical were estimated from these raw data Because participants and contacts were mostly from the general community, the resulting contact patterns are suitable for models of diseases that are socially spread, such as influenza, but not directly usable for diseases with other routes of transmission, such as nosocomial infections. (2) Results for the other 149 countries in the study can be found in the S1 Text. home, work, and school), and including them as predictors in transmission dynamic models of pathogens that spread socially will improve the models’ realism. (contacts), labelled with the corresponding age groups. In Germany, for which it was explicitly measured, the age-specific contact patterns (panels d–f) at the workplace show wide clusters of contacts among working ages (20–60), indicating relatively homogenous mixing in this setting. 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