Paper Info
Title
On the relationship between socio-economic factors and cell phone usage
Abstract
The ubiquitous presence of cell phones in emerging economies has brought about a wide range of cell phone-based services for low-income groups. Often times, the success of such technologies highly depends on its adaptation to the needs and habits of each social group. In an attempt to understand how cell phones are being used by citizens in an emerging economy, we present a large-scale study to analyze the relationship between specific socio-economic factors and the way people use cell phones in an emerging economy in Latin America. We propose a novel analytical approach that combines large-scale datasets of cell phone records with countrywide census data to reveal findings at a national level. Our main results show correlations between socio-economic levels and social network or mobility patterns among others. We also provide analytical models to accurately approximate census variables from cell phone records with R2 ≈ 0.82.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2160673.2160684
ICTD
Keywords
Field
DocType
socio-economic factor,analytical model,large-scale study,social group,cell phone record,cell phone,novel analytical approach,countrywide census data,approximate census variable,cell phone-based service,cell phone usage,large-scale datasets,latin america,emerging economies,human behavior,social network,social groups
Social group,Latin Americans,Social network,Computer science,Emerging markets,Socioeconomics,Phone,Census
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
21
1.56
6
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vanessa Frias-Martinez121317.79
Jesus Virseda2595.73