@article{60f0b5212bab4b77ae226a82d962bc24,
title = "Quantifying travel behavior for infectious disease research: A comparison of data from surveys and mobile phones",
abstract = "Human travel impacts the spread of infectious diseases across spatial and temporal scales, with broad implications for the biological and social sciences. Individual data on travel patterns have been difficult to obtain, particularly in low-income countries. Travel survey data provide detailed demographic information, but sample sizes are often small and travel histories are hard to validate. Mobile phone records can provide vast quantities of spatio-temporal travel data but vary in spatial resolution and explicitly do not include individual information in order to protect the privacy of subscribers. Here we compare and contrast both sources of data over the same time period in a rural area of Kenya. Although both data sets are able to quantify broad travel patterns and distinguish regional differences in travel, each provides different insights that can be combined to form a more detailed picture of travel in low-income settings to understand the spread of infectious diseases.",
author = "Amy Wesolowski and Gillian Stresman and Nathan Eagle and Jennifer Stevenson and Chrispin Owaga and Elizabeth Marube and Teun Bousema and Christopher Drakeley and Jonathan Cox and Buckee, {Caroline O.}",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful to the community of Kisii and Rachuonyo for their cooperation. We also thank the support of our partners in the Kenya Medical Research Institute/US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kisumu, Kenya. This project was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, under the Malaria Transmission Consortium, grant no. 45114. APW was supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship program (#0750271) and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. COB was supported by the Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study program (cooperative agreement 1U54GM088558). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute Of General Medical Sciences or the National Institutes of Health. Mobile phone data were provided by an anonymous service provider in Kenya and is not available for distribution. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This article has been approved by the Director of the Kenya Medical Research Institute.",
year = "2014",
month = jul,
day = "14",
doi = "10.1038/srep05678",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "4",
journal = "Scientific reports",
issn = "2045-2322",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
}