title: Influence of sociodemographic characteristics on human mobility [corrected].
abstract: Human mobility has been traditionally studied using surveys that deliver snapshots of population displacement patterns. The growing accessibility to ICT information from portable digital media has recently opened the possibility of exploring human behavior at high spatio-temporal resolutions. Mobile phone records, geolocated tweets, check-ins from Foursquare or geotagged photos, have contributed to this purpose at different scales, from cities to countries, in different world areas. Many previous works lacked, however, details on the individuals' attributes such as age or gender. In this work, we analyze credit-card records from Barcelona and Madrid and by examining the geolocated credit-card transactions of individuals living in the two provinces, we find that the mobility patterns vary according to gender, age and occupation. Differences in distance traveled and travel purpose are observed between younger and older people, but, curiously, either between males and females of similar age. While mobility displays some generic features, here we show that sociodemographic characteristics play a relevant role and must be taken into account for mobility and epidemiological modelization.
authors.affiliation: IFISC, Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos (CSIC-UIB), Campus Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
authors.forename: Maxime
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lenormand
authors.affiliation: 1] Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA-CNRS (URA 2306), F-91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France [2] Géographie-Cités, CNRS-Paris 1-Paris 7 (UMR 8504), 13 rue du four, FR-75006, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Louail
authors.affiliation: Nommon Solutions and Technologies, Plaza del Marqués de Salamanca 11, 28006, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Oliva G
authors.initials: OG
authors.lastname: Cantú-Ros
authors.affiliation: Nommon Solutions and Technologies, Plaza del Marqués de Salamanca 11, 28006, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Miguel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Picornell
authors.affiliation: Nommon Solutions and Technologies, Plaza del Marqués de Salamanca 11, 28006, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Herranz
authors.affiliation: BBVA Data &Analytics, Avenida de Burgos 16D, 28036 Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Juan Murillo
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Arias
authors.affiliation: 1] Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA-CNRS (URA 2306), F-91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France [2] Centre d'Analyse et de Mathématique Sociales, EHESS-CNRS (UMR 8557), 190-198 avenue de France, FR-75013 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Barthelemy
authors.affiliation: IFISC, Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos (CSIC-UIB), Campus Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
authors.forename: Maxi San
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Miguel
authors.affiliation: IFISC, Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos (CSIC-UIB), Campus Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
authors.forename: José J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Ramasco
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D016208:Databases, Factual; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014195:Travel; D055815:Young Adult