Daily population and trips per person data from Spain 2020-2021

This repository contains daily population records based on a study conducted by the MITMA, that analysed the mobility and distribution of the population in Spain from February 14th 2020 to May 9th 2021. The study is based on a sample of more than 13 million anonymised mobile phone lines provided by a single mobile operator whose subscribers are evenly distributed.

For more information on the data visit: https://www.mitma.gob.es/ministerio/covid-19/evolucion-movilidad-big-data

Data provided by MITMA is related to the layer mitma_mov. For the rest of the layers, the population was estimated using the population grid from GEOSTAT: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/population-distribution-demography/geostat

Synthetic populations for regions of the World (SPW) | Spain

Dataset information

A synthetic population of a region as provided here, captures the people of the region with selected demographic attributes, their organization into households, their assigned activities for a day, the locations where the activities take place and thus where interactions among population members happen (e.g., spread of epidemics).

License

CC-BY-4.0

Acknowledgment

This project was supported by the National Science Foundation under the NSF RAPID: COVID-19 Response Support: Building Synthetic Multi-scale Networks (PI: Madhav Marathe, Co-PIs: Henning Mortveit, Srinivasan Venkatramanan; Fund Number: OAC-2027541).

Contact information

Henning.Mortveit@virginia.edu

Identifiers

Statistics

Sources

Files description

Base data files (esp_data_v_0_9.zip)

Derived data files

Validation and measures files

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