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Using AsiaBarometer survey data on 14 Central and South Asian countries, i.e., Kazakhstan, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Bhutan, Mongolia, Nepal, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, this chapter attempts to see key dimensions of social capital. Twelve survey questions related to social capital included in the AsiaBarometer survey are factor analysed with varimax rotation. Three dimensions have emerged: general trust, merit-based utilitarianism, and institutional engagement. On these bases, six groups of countries have emerged, using hierarchical clustering analysis: (1) Sri Lanka, Bhutan, India; (2) Pakistan, the Maldives, (3) Turkmenistan; (4) Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Afghanistan; (5) Mongolia, Nepal; (6) Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan.
The original version of this chapter was revised. An erratum to this chapter can be found at DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-2305-7_13
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As observed in Fig. 4.8, it is evident that this answer was not an option in Maldives.
Fig. 4.8 
Social capital: use of connections
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Hayashi’s quantification method III and categorical principal component analysis are other options.
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Inoguchi, T., Hotta, ZU.L. (2017). Quantifying Social Capital in Central and South Asia: Are There Democratic, Developmental, and Regionalizing Potentials?. In: Inoguchi, T., Tokuda, Y. (eds) Trust with Asian Characteristics. Trust, vol 1. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2305-7_4
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