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Associations between mobility and socio-economic indicators vary across the timeline of the Covid-19 pandemic

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  • Long, Jed
  • Ren, Chang

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Covid-19 interventions are greatly affecting patterns of human mobility. Changes in mobility during Covid-19 have differed across socio-economic gradients during the first wave. We use fine-scale network mobility data in Ontario, Canada to study the association between three different mobility measures and four socio-economic indicators throughout the first and second wave of Covid-19 (January to December 2020). We find strong associations between mobility and the socio-economic indicators and that relationships between mobility and other socio-economic indicators vary over time. We further demonstrate that understanding how mobility has changed in response to Covid-19 varies considerably depending on how mobility is measured. Our findings have important implications for understanding how mobility data should be used to study interventions across space and time. Our results support that Covid-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions have resulted in geographically disparate responses to mobility and quantifying mobility changes at fine geographical scales is crucial to understanding the impacts of Covid-19.

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  • Long, Jed & Ren, Chang, 2021. "Associations between mobility and socio-economic indicators vary across the timeline of the Covid-19 pandemic," SocArXiv tca34_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:tca34_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/tca34_v1
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