Mobile Phone Data for Policy - Use Cases

By Sector, Thematic Area

Sector/Thematic Area	Use Cases
Displacement and Disaster Response	- UNCEBD Handbook: Displacement and Disaster Statistics - Improved response to disasters and outbreaks by tracking population movements with mobile phone network data: a post-earthquake geospatial study in Haiti - Can Mobile Phone Data Improve Emergency Response to Natural Disasters? - Rapid and Near Real-Time Assessments of Population Displacement Using Mobile Phone Data Following Disasters: The 2015 Nepal Earthquake - Measuring Displacements with Mobile Phone Data following Turkish and Syria Earthquakes -Mexico: Measuring Displacement post flood -Ghana: Post flood induced displacement
Dynamic Population Mapping	- UNCEBD Handbook: Dynamic Population Mapping - Estimating population density distribution from network-based mobile phone data - Remotely measuring populations during a crisis by overlaying two data sources - Dynamic denominators: the impact of seasonally varying population numbers on disease incidence estimates - Unveiling hidden migration and mobility patterns in climate stressed regions: A longitudinal study of six million anonymous mobile phone users in Bangladesh - Dynamic population mapping using mobile phone data
Jobs, Opportunities, Labor Markets	- Accessibility Patterns in Santiago Chile -A Trip to Work: Estimating commute patterns in Haiti - Measuring mobility inequalities in Brazil Favellas
Measuring the Information Society	- UNCEBD Handbook: Measuring the Information Society - Big Data for Measuring the Information Society - Measuring Information Society in Colombia - Measuring Information Society in Sweden - Measuring Information Society in UAE - Measuring Information Society in the Philippines - Measuring Information Society in Georgia
Migration Statistics	- UNCEBD Handbook: Migration Statistics - White paper on policy implications of using mobile phone data for migration - Exploring the use of mobile phone data for national migration statistics - Leveraging Mobile Phone Data for Migration Flows - The Venezuelan Migration Crisis in Ecuador - Understanding temporary migration in Senegal
Public Health	- Haiti: Covid Mobility Analysis - Namibia: Covid Mobility Analysis - Sierra Leone: Covid Mobility Analysis - Ghana: Covid Mobility Analysis - Quantifying the impact of accessibility on preventive healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa using mobile phone data
Tourism Statistics	- UNCEBD Handbook: Tourism Statistics - Big Data Governance: The Case of Mobile Positioning Data for Official Tourism Statistics In Indonesia -Estonia Tourism Statistics
Transport Statistics	- UNCEBD Handbook: Transport Statistics - Utilizing mobile network data for transport modelling - Beware Thy Bias: Scaling Mobile Phone Data to Measure Traffic Intensities - ITF Discussion Paper: Use of Big Data in Transport Statistics - EIB: Technical Note on Sharing Big Data in Transport available in Spanish version
Poverty Mapping	- Mapping poverty using mobile phone and satellite data
Disease Tracking	- Using Mobile Phone Data to Predict the Spatial Spread of Cholera, Scientific Reports - Containing the ebola outbreak - the potential and challenge of mobile network data - The use of mobile phone data for the estimation of the travel patterns and imported Plasmodium falciparum rates among Zanzibar residents, Malaria Journal - Quantifying seasonal population fluxes driving rubella transmission dynamics using mobile phone data - Association between mobility, non-pharmaceutical interventions, and COVID-19 transmission in Ghana: A modelling study using mobile phone data - Countrywide population movement monitoring using mobile devices generated (big) data during the COVID-19 crisis