China

Migration Patterns in China Extracted from Mobile Positioning Data

Nationwide migrations have drawn much attention from both geographical and social sciences. Compared to census-data-based studies, data collected from broadly used location-awareness devices enable us to describe migrant patterns with timely and fine …

Delineating Urbanization ``Source-Sink'' Regions in China: Evidence from Mobile App Data

Traditional census data are ill-suited for uncovering the true population patterns and underlying social and economic dynamics in China as the census relies on information of population with registered household status. A large number of migrant …