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JUE Insight: Measuring movement and social contact with smartphone data: a real-time application to COVID-19
- Source :
- Journal of urban economics. 127
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Tracking human activity in real time and at fine spatial scale is particularly valuable during episodes such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we discuss the suitability of smartphone data for quantifying movement and social contact. These data cover broad sections of the US population and exhibit pre-pandemic patterns similar to conventional survey data. We develop and make publicly available a location exposure index that summarizes county-to-county movements and a device exposure index that quantifies social contact within venues. We also investigate the reliability of smartphone movement data during the pandemic.
- Subjects :
- Economics and Econometrics
education.field_of_study
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
Index (economics)
Social contact
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Computer science
Movement (music)
05 social sciences
Population
Data science
Urban Studies
0502 economics and business
Survey data collection
050207 economics
education
Reliability (statistics)
050205 econometrics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00941190
- Volume :
- 127
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of urban economics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....062c9e60a12db1837c98b553f217963b