2020/09/08 by Georg Heiler, Heiler, Georg, Allan Hanbury +3
Social Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Medicine · #Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis #Spatial and Panel Data Analysis #Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2009.03798
Evaluating relative changes leads to additional insights which would remain hidden when only evaluating absolute changes. We analyze a dataset describing mobility of mobile phones in Austria before, during COVID-19 lock-down measures until recent. By applying compositional data analysis we show that formerly hidden information becomes available: we see that the elderly population groups increase relative mobility and that the younger groups especially on weekends also do not decrease their mobility as much as the others.