Transmission vectors of essential Tsimane knowledge and skills: dataset and code.

In our research report Cultural transmission vectors of essential knowledge and skills among Tsimane forager-farmers, we examine reported patterns of culture transmission contributing to 92 essential skills among a sample of 421 Tsimane forager-horticulturalists. We collected data for the study using a Skills Survey to identify vectors and types of influence responsible for the transmission of 92 skills important among Tsimane (Schniter et al. 2015). Here we provide the anonymized data for Schniter et al.’s 2022 study (as both a .csv file and as a .sav file) as well as both code and outputs (as an .spv file) for statistical analyses performed using IBM SPSS Version 24.

For additional details about the Skills Survey see

Schniter, E., Gurven, M., Kaplan, H. S., Wilcox, N. T., & Hooper, P. L. (2015). Skill ontogeny among Tsimane forager‐horticulturalists. American journal of physical anthropology, 158(1), 3-18.

Attached:

TransmissionData.csv

TransmissionData.sav

Regressions&Frenquencies.spv