Database "Childfree (antinatalist) communities in the social network VKontakte"

Irina Kalabikhina () and Evgeny P. Banin ()
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Evgeny P. Banin: Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow, Russia

Population and Economics, 2021, vol. 5, issue 2, 92-96

Abstract: The database contains an upload of text comments in Russian from the social network VKontakte in .csv format (UTF-8 encoding). The comments are collected from communities, which discuss pregnancy, childhood, motherhood, paternity, etc. The upload contains comments under the posts with which the interaction took place. The absolute amount of likes is used as a criterion (comments are collected where the number of likes is greater than or equal to 5). The text data is processed (stemmization and lemmatization). The data are suitable for thematic analysis (e.g. LDA — Latent Dirichlet Allocation), sentiment analysis of statements, modelling the graph structure of communities (the link_comment variable contains a unique identifier of the post, link_author contains a unique user identifier), and forming a dictionary of demographic connotation in Russian. Sentiment analysis of statements enables measuring the dynamics of «demographic temperature» in antinatalist communities. The database is a supplement to the publication Kalabikhina IE, Banin EP (2020) Database «Pro-family (pronatalist) communities in the social network VKontakte». Population and Economics 4(3): 98–130. https://doi.org/10.3897/popecon.4.e60915.

Keywords: database; big; data; antinatalism; VKontakte; social; networks; communities; family; values; child; free (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C31 C32 D71 E71 J1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.3897/popecon.5.e70786

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