Mapping home internet activity during COVID-19 lockdown to identify occupation related inequalities.

ABSTRACT: During the COVID-19 pandemic, evidence has accumulated that movement restrictions enacted to combat virus spread produce disparate consequences along socioeconomic lines. We investigate the hypothesis that people engaged in financially secure employment are better able to adhere to mobility restrictions, due to occupational factors that link the capacity for flexible work arrangements to income security. We use high-resolution spatial data on household internet traffic as a surrogate for adaptation to home-based work, together with the geographical clustering of occupation types, to investigate the relationship between occupational factors and increased internet traffic during work hours under lockdown in two Australian cities. By testing our hypothesis based on the observed trends, and ex

SUBMITTER: Zachreson C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8548542 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature