Author: May Offermans, Yvonne Gootzen, Edwin de Jonge, Jan van der Laan, Frank Pijpers, Shan Shah, Martijn Tennekes, Peter-Paul de Wolf.

Pilot Study: Mobile Phone Meta Data Records – Introduction to the research method

Accompanying the technical report “Estimating Hourly Population Flows”

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Anonymised aggregated mobile phone meta data may serve as a basis for indirect estimates of the number of residents that are present in their municipality and the number of visitors to this municipality at a particular time. This is the conclusion that can be drawn from the pilot study.