Urban exodus? Understanding human mobility in Britain during the COVID-19 pandemic using Meta-Facebook data.

ABSTRACT: Existing empirical work has focused on assessing the effectiveness of nonpharmaceutical interventions on human mobility to contain the spread of COVID-19. Less is known about the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the spatial patterns of population movement within countries. Anecdotal evidence of an urban exodus from large cities to rural areas emerged during early phases of the pandemic across western societies. Yet, these claims have not been empirically assessed. Traditional data sources, such as censuses offer coarse temporal frequency to analyse population movement over infrequent time intervals. Drawing on a data set of 21 million observations from Meta-Facebook users, we aim to analyse the extent and evolution of changes in the spatial patterns of population movement a

SUBMITTER: Rowe F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9877951 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature