Table 5 Mobile phone data used in country-specific and generalized poverty models.

From: Mobility and phone call behavior explain patterns in poverty at high-resolution across multiple settings

 

Namibia

Nepal

Bangladesh

Number of places

X

X

X

Outgoing call count

X

  

Outgoing text count

X

  

Percent nocturnal communications

X

X

X

Radius of gyration

X

X

 

Incoming text count

  

X

Entropy places

  

X

Entropy contacts

 

X

X

Outgoing call duration

 

X

 

Top-up measure

  

X

Multimedia messaging

  

X

Internet usage

  

X

  1. Statistically significant CDR-derived features for country-level models are denoted with an X. From these, covariates that were statistically significant in at least one country-level model and available for all three countries make up the CDR data for generalized models, and are italicized in bold.
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