Poverty on the cheap: Estimating poverty maps using aggregated mobile communication networks

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 511-520

  Smith Clarke, Christopher ^a   Mashhadi, Afra ^b   Capra, Licia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Call detail records; Data4D; ICT4D; Socio economics

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; POPULATION STATISTICS; SURVEYS;

CALL DETAIL RECORDS; DATA COLLECTION PROCESS; DATA4D; ICT4D; MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; MOBILE PHONE SUBSCRIBERS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS; SOCIO-ECONOMICS;

AGGREGATES;

EID: 84900401861     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557358     Document Type: Conference Paper

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