Human mixing patterns are the key to understand the transmission of infectious diseases and to inform transmission models used to support public health decision-making. Contact patterns relevant for the transmission of infectious disease have been estimated for several countries. However, no data was available for Russia. We thus performed a population-based survey in Tomsk, Russia, asking participants to record all their contacts in physical person during regular school/working days.

The collected the inferred contact matrices are available here.

The results are published in M. Ajelli & M. Litvinova. Estimating contact patterns relevant to the spread of infectious diseases in Russia. Journal of Theoretical Biology 419:1-7, 2017.