id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-339405-sj7dd6jr Grantz, K. H. Age-specific social mixing of school-aged children in a US setting using proximity detecting sensors and contact surveys 2020-07-14 .txt text/plain 3988 231 51 To increase the evidence base supporting specific methods to measure social interaction, we compared data from self-reported contact surveys and wearable proximity sensors from a cohort of schoolchildren in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. While proximity sensors and survey methods may not be interchangeable for capturing individual contacts, they can generate highly correlated data on age-specific mixing patterns relevant to the dynamics of respiratory virus transmission. Transmission models 187 When used in age-specific simulation, sensor-and survey-based mixing matrices produced 188 similar attack rates when adjusted by proportionate mixing expectations (Fig. 4) . We found that two common methods of collecting social contact data, self-274 reported surveys and proximity sensors, recorded qualitatively and quantitatively different 275 individual social mixing behaviour but could still generate similar aggregate age-specific social 276 contact patterns. . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.12.20151696 doi: medRxiv preprint proximity sensors and self-reported surveys were likely to record contacts with different transmission potential, we fitted β for each set of parameters, including the age-specific mixing 18 (EP/N014499/1). ./cache/cord-339405-sj7dd6jr.txt ./txt/cord-339405-sj7dd6jr.txt