Varieties of Mobility Measures: Comparing Survey and Mobile Phone Data during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT: Human mobility has become a major variable of interest during the COVID-19 pandemic and central to policy decisions all around the world. To measure individual mobility, research relies on a variety of indicators that commonly stem from two main data sources: survey self-reports and behavioral mobility data from mobile phones. However, little is known about how mobility from survey self-reports relates to popular mobility estimates using data from the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) and the Global Positioning System (GPS). Spanning March 2020 until April 2021, this study compares self-reported mobility from a panel survey in Austria to aggregated mobility estimates utilizing (1) GSM data and (2) Google's GPS-based Community Mobility Reports. Our analyses show that correlation

SUBMITTER: Kalleitner F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9940778 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature