Movement Distribution

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Time Period of the Dataset [?]
December 01, 2022-February 28, 2025 ... More
Modified [?]
10 March 2025
Dataset Added on HDX [?]
11 January 2024 Less
Expected Update Frequency
Every month
Location
Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Åland Islands, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China, Macao Special Administrative Region, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Holy See, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia (Federated States of), Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, North Macedonia, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Réunion, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan (Province of China), Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Türkiye, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United Republic of Tanzania, United States, United States Virgin Islands, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Viet Nam, Wallis and Futuna Islands, World, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Source
Data for Good at Meta
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Contributor
Data for Good at Meta
Methodology

Please check the Movement Distribution Readme - Data for Good at Meta.PDF for any questions regarding this dataset.

More info available here: https://dataforgood.facebook.com/dfg/tools/movement-distribution-maps

Step 1: Assign people to geographic areas and drop small counts We assign people to geographic areas based on their typical nighttime location and omit areas where few people live.

Step 2: Calculate movement distribution We quantify how much people move around by selecting a random location update for each person during the day, and determining how far away that is from their typical nighttime location.

Step 3: Assign Distance Categories We calculate the percentage of people in each of four distance categories based on how far they travel from home on a given day, including 0km, 0-10km, 10-100km and 100km+.

Step 4: Add noise We calculate an appropriate amount of noise to add to the total tiles visited for each region to ensure it is effectively impossible to re-identify any individual.

Caveats / Comments

Data is not available prior to December 2022 or for sensitive geographies. The dataset uses data only from Facebook users who have chosen to share location services data.

New data is updated at the start of each month and includes files spanning the recently completed month.
License
Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY)
Tags
displacement
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