Academic papers & publications

Other research

Bias estimates for mobile phone data (MPD)-derived mobility statistics in low-and middle-income countries

16 Oct 2025

Targeting mobile money cash transfers for emergency relief using Call Detail Records in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

16 Oct 2025

Challenges in predicting individual poverty status from MNO customer segmentation metrics and phone surveys: a Papua New Guinea case study

06 Oct 2023

Flowminder standards in producing mobility and population estimates from call details records in low- and middle-income countries

06 Oct 2023

Assessing the utility of mobile network operator data in geospatial models of poverty - a Ghana case study

06 Oct 2023

Using survey data to correct for representation biases in mobility indicators derived from mobile operator data to produce high-frequency estimates of population and internal migration

06 Oct 2023

Correcting measurement biases in the detection of long and short stay locations in sparse Call Detail Records (CDRs)

06 Oct 2023

The impact of apparent ‘teleports’ on the estimation of mobility from Call Detail Records (CDRs)

06 Oct 2023

Monitoring the impact of the 2020-2021 COVID-19 mobility restrictions: Flowminder CDR analysis in seven low- and middle-income countries

06 Oct 2023

Enabling the Ghanaian National Statistics Office to produce official statistics derived from mobile operator data with applications across the public sector

06 Oct 2023

Estimation of poverty in Somalia using innovative methodologies

22 Feb 2019
World Bank, Poverty & Equality Global Practice Working Paper 191

Estimating poverty in a fragile context: the high frequency survey in South Sudan

30 Jan 2019
World Bank, Poverty & Equity Global Practice Working Paper 189

Towards Real-Time Prediction of Unemployment and Profession

18 Sep 2017
Social Informatics, Sept. 2017

Big Data and the Well-Being of Women and Girls: Applications on the Social Scientific Frontier

30 Apr 2017
Apr. 2017