Associations between mobility and socio-economic indicators vary across the timeline of the Covid-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: Covid-19 interventions are greatly affecting patterns of human mobility. Changes in mobility during Covid-19 have differed across socio-economic gradients during the first wave. We use fine-scale network mobility data in Ontario, Canada to study the association between three different mobility measures and four socio-economic indicators throughout the first and second wave of Covid-19 (January to December 2020). We find strong associations between mobility and the socio-economic indicators and that relationships between mobility and other socio-economic indicators vary over time. We further demonstrate that understanding how mobility has changed in response to Covid-19 varies considerably depending on how mobility is measured. Our findings have important implications for understanding how

SUBMITTER: Long JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8514267 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature