Predicting poverty and wealth from mobile phone metadata

Science

Volumn 350, Issue 6264, 2015, Pages 1073-1076

  Blumenstock, Joshua ^a   Cadamuro, Gabriel ^a   On, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; PLANNING SYSTEM; POVERTY; PREDICTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MOBILE PHONE; POPULATION RESEARCH; POVERTY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FAMILY SIZE; RWANDA; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

CELL PHONES; CENSUSES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; POVERTY; RWANDA; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 84948451086     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aac4420     Document Type: Article

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