13:45 - 14:45
Th-STS14
Chair:
Samuel Stolton
Location Precision in Mobile Phone Data, Application to present population in France
Milena Suarez Castillo, (Email) 1, François Sémécurbe, (Email) 1, 2, Haixuan Xavier Tao, (Email) 1, 3, Cezary Ziemlicki, (Email) 4
1 Insee
2 Université de Franche-Comté
3 Université Gustave Eiffel
4 Orange Labs

Mobile phone data are shedding a new light on population dynamics. Yet, spatial resolution of cellular-based statistics is scarcely documented, highly dependent on the network topology and very heterogeneous across territories. In this paper, we propose a general framework to evaluate the location estimation precision of cellular network events. With a quadtree algorithm, we build an adaptive spatial where the smallest the tiles, the highest the accuracy embedding precision within the dissemination grid. Our proposals are directly tested on producing a new present population statistics for metropolitan France using signalling data, network data and a highly precise residency location data.