.@Asher_Wolf has claimed the ABS used telco data to track Australians - sounds alarming, right? Trouble is there’s loads of misinformation in Wolf’s piece. https://t.co/LlePTkWfAc #data #research pic.twitter.com/Q6Bvrf7w3F
— Dr Liz Allen (@DrDemography) April 24, 2018
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
estimating temporary populations
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The ABS claims population estimates have a “major data gap” and so they’ve been a busy bee figuring out a way to track crowd movement. Their solution? Mobile device user data.
“…with its near-complete coverage of the population, mobile device data is now seen as a feasible way to estimate temporary populations,” states a 2017 conference extract for a talk by ABS Demographer Andrew Howe.
While the “Estimated Resident Population” (ERP) is Australia’s official population measure, the ABS felt the pre-existing data wasn’t ‘granular’ enough. What the ABS really wanted to know was where you’re moving, hour by hour, through the CBD, educational hubs, tourist areas.
Howe’s ABS pilot study of mobile device user data creates population estimates with the help of a trial engagement with an unnamed telco company. The data includes age and sex breakdowns. The study ran between the 18th April to 1st May 2016.
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