Francisco presented Mobile Phone Data for Cross-border Population & Expenditure Flows: Ideas & Challenges at the workshop Measurement of the flows across the internal borders of the European Union, held at the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, on 14 May 2025.
This workshop talk discussed the use of mobile phone data to estimate cross-border population and expenditure flows across internal European Union borders, focusing on methodological opportunities and practical challenges for robust measurement.
The presentation examined how digital trace data from mobile phones can support the measurement of cross-border dynamics, while also highlighting the importance of careful methodological design, data interpretation, and robust inference when using these emerging sources for official and policy-relevant analysis.
