Making 15 Years of Dutch Social Network Data Accessible and Analysable

Our research infrastructure makes accessible and readily analysable 15 years of the Dutch person network data, and it is now openly available! 

Our fast, reusable research infrastructure can be leveraged within CBS’s Microdata RA environment and facilitates the management of data of the population-scale social network of the Netherlands. This work uses the in-house developed open-source Python package mlnlib together with a specially prepared compressed dataset in MLN format, available via the ODISSEI Data Portal and easily integrated into a CBS Microdata project through CBS Data Storage in collaboration with ODISSEI. To learn more and make use of PLANET-NL infrastructure to analyse the Dutch population-scale social network, visit the Data page.