Using mobile money data and call detail records to explore the risks of urban migration in Tanzania.

Call detail records Exploitation Machine learning Migration Mobile money Tanzania Vulnerability

Journal

EPJ data science
ISSN: 2193-1127
Titre abrégé: EPJ Data Sci
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 101686785

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2022
Historique:
received: 21 12 2021
accepted: 14 04 2022
entrez: 16 5 2022
pubmed: 17 5 2022
medline: 17 5 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Understanding what factors predict whether an urban migrant will end up in a deprived neighbourhood or not could help prevent the exploitation of vulnerable individuals. This study leveraged pseudonymized mobile money interactions combined with cell phone data to shed light on urban migration patterns and deprivation in Tanzania. Call detail records were used to identify individuals who migrated to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city. A street survey of the city's subwards was used to determine which individuals moved to more deprived areas. The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1140/epjds/s13688-022-00340-y.

Identifiants

pubmed: 35571071
doi: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-022-00340-y
pii: 340
pmc: PMC9079216
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

28

Informations de copyright

© The Author(s) 2022.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Auteurs

Rosa Lavelle-Hill (R)

University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK.

John Harvey (J)

The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

Gavin Smith (G)

The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

Anjali Mazumder (A)

The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK.

Madeleine Ellis (M)

The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

Kelefa Mwantimwa (K)

University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

James Goulding (J)

The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

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