Paper Info
Title
On The Relation Between Socio-Economic Status And Physical Mobility
Abstract
In emerging economies, the socio-economic status is a key element to evaluate social improvement as it provides an understanding of the population's access to housing, education, health or basic services, such as water and electricity. The relationship between such indicators and human physical mobility has been researched mostly in areas like access to medical infrastructures and public transportation. However, such studies have been limited in scope mostly due to the lack of large-scale human mobility information. Nevertheless, the recent adoption of cell phones by large social groups in emerging economies has made it possible to capture large-scale data about human physical mobility, which combined with regional socio-economic levels (SELs), allows to study the relationship between socio-economic indices and human mobility. In this paper, we study the relationship between mobility variables and SELs using cell phone traces. Our results indicate that populations with higher SELs are strongly linked to larger mobility ranges than populations from lower socio-economic status. Finally, we also present a model that formalizes our findings on the relation between SELs and human mobility.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1080/02681102.2011.630312
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT
Keywords
Field
DocType
human physical mobility, socio-economic indicators, policy guidelines, ICTs and mobiles for development
Social group,Population,Economics,Physical mobility,Environmental resource management,Electricity,Emerging markets,Public transport,Phone,Socioeconomic status
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
2
0268-1102
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.54
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vanessa Frias-Martinez121317.79
jesus virsedajerez250.54
Enrique Frias-Martinez323817.11