Academic papers & publications

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

16 Oct 2025

Tackling public health data gaps through Bayesian high-resolution population estimation: A case study of Kasaï-Oriental, Democratic Republic of the Congo

19 Sep 2025
PLOS Glob Public Health 5(9): e0005072. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0005072

Pre-print: Tackling public health data gaps through Bayesian high-resolution population estimation: a case study of Kasaï-Oriental, Democratic Republic of the Congo

05 Aug 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

Call detail record aggregation methodology impacts infectious disease models informed by human mobility

15 Aug 2023
PLoS Computational Biology, 10 August 2023. 19(8): e1011368. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011368

Mobile phone usage data for disaster response

04 Apr 2022
Communications of the ACM: 04 April 2022. Volume 65. Issue 4.

Guiding principles to maintain public trust in the use of mobile operator data for policy purposes

04 Oct 2021
Cambridge University Press: 01 October 2021. Data & Policy, 3, E24. doi:10.1017/dap.2021.21

Analysis of call detail records to inform the COVID-19 response in Ghana—opportunities and challenges

26 Jun 2021
Cambridge University Press: 23 June 2021.

CEDIL Methods Working Papers: Using big data for evaluating development outcomes: a systematic map

05 Jan 2021
CEDIL Methods Working Paper. Oxford: Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL).

Gridded Population Survey Sampling: A Review of the Field and Strategic Research Agenda

25 Nov 2020
Preprints, 2019110072

Estimating the resilience to natural disasters by using call detail records to analyse the mobility of internally displaced persons

06 Aug 2019
arXiv.org, arXiv:1908.02381 [physics.soc-ph]

Detecting individual internal displacements following a sudden-onset disaster using time series analysis of call detail records

06 Aug 2019
arXiv.org, arXiv:1908.02377 [physics.soc-ph]

Past and future spread of the arbovirus vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus

08 Apr 2019
Nature Microbiology, 4, 854–863 (2019)

Exploring the use of mobile phone data for national migration statistics

26 Mar 2019
Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Communications 5, Article number: 34 (2019)

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

On the privacy-conscientious use of mobile phone data

11 Dec 2018
Scientific Data, 2018, 5, 180286

Using routinely collected laboratory data to identify high rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis burden communities in the Western Cape Province, South Africa: A retrospective spatiotemporal analysis

21 Aug 2018
PloS Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002638

Linking Synthetic Populations to Household Geolocations: A Demonstration in Namibia

09 Aug 2018
Data, 2018, 3, 30

Population mobility reductions associated with travel restrictions during the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone: use of mobile phone data

26 Jun 2018
International Journal of Epidemiology, 2018, 1–9

A trip to work: Estimation of origin and destination of commuting patterns in the main metropolitan regions of Haiti using CDR

30 Mar 2018
Development Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.deveng.2018.03.002

Improving household surveys and use of data to address health inequities in three Asian cities: protocol for the Surveys for Urban Equity (SUE) mixed methods and feasibility study

30 Mar 2018
BMJ Open, 018;8:e024182. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024182

Examining the correlates and drivers of human population distributions across low- and middle-income countries

13 Dec 2017
Royal Society Interface, Volume 14, issue 137