Title
Correlations of consumption patterns in social-economic networks.
Abstract
We analyze a coupled dataset collecting the mobile phone communication and bank transactions history of a large number of individuals living in Mexico. After mapping the social structure and introducing indicators of socioeconomic status, demographic features, and purchasing habits of individuals we show that typical consumption patterns are strongly correlated with identified socioeconomic classes leading to patterns of stratification in the social structure. In addition we measure correlations between merchant categories and introduce a correlation network, which emerges with a meaningful community structure. We detect multivariate relations between merchant categories and show correlations in purchasing habits of individuals. Our work provides novel and detailed insight into the relations between social and consuming behaviour with potential applications in recommendation system design.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.5555/3192424.3192516
ASONAM '16: Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2016 Davis California August, 2016
Keywords
DocType
Volume
consumption patterns,socialeconomic networks,coupled dataset analysis,mobile phone communication,bank transactions history,Mexico,social structure,socioeconomic status,demographic features,purchasing habits,merchant categories,correlation network,multivariate relations,consuming behaviour,recommendation system design
Conference
abs/1609.03756
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
IEEE/ACM ASONAM p. 500-507, San Francisco CA, August 18-21 (2016)
978-1-5090-2846-7
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yannick Leo140.48
Márton Karsai242230.42
Carlos Sarraute310622.64
Eric Fleury424323.71