A strategy for the matching of mobile phone signals with census data

06/27/2019
by   Rodolfo Metulini, et al.
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Administrative data allows us to count for the number of residents. The geo-localization of people by mobile phone, by quantifying the number of people at a given moment in time, enriches the amount of useful information for "smart" (cities) evaluations. However, using Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM) data, we are able to characterize the spatio-temporal dynamic of the presences in the city of just TIM users. A strategy to estimate total presences is needed. In this paper we propose a strategy to extrapolate the number of total people by using TIM data only. To do so, we apply a spatial record linkage of mobile phone data with administrative archives using the number of residents at the level of sezione di censimento.

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