Table 1 Summary statistics of the French cattle trade networks, aggregated over a year

Number of vertices

179,518

174,034

169,248

164,171

Number of edges

989,684

980,376

1,401,577

1,371,844

Number of movements

2,318,824

2,268,494

1,552,554

1,522,314

Greatest strongly c.c.

74,044

68,746

52,782

49,445

Average out-degree

5.51

5.63

8.28

8.35

Maximum in-degree

12,426

11,673

2,087

2,108

Maximum out-degree

2,767

2,252

351

389

Exponent of degree distribution

2.12

2.24

5.11

5.29

Average clustering

0.316

0.315

0.033

0.036

Degree assortativity

\(-\)0.120

\(-\)0.123

\(-\)0.30

\(-\)0.316