Can mobile phone network data be used to estimate small area population? A comparison from Japan

Statistical Journal of the IAOS

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 223-232

  Makita, Naoki ^a   Kimura, Masakazu ^b   Terada, Masayuki ^c   Kobayashi, Motonari ^c   Oyabu, Yuki ^c  

^a National Statistics Center   (Japan)

^b AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NTT DOCOMO   (Japan)

Author keywords

geostatistics; grid square statistics; gridded population; mobile phone network; mobile spatial statistics; Small area statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893662914     PISSN: 18747655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/SJI-130778     Document Type: Conference Paper

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