Stats Brief, June 2019 (Issue no. 18): Can mobile phone data be used for official statistics? - Asia and the Pacific says yes

This paper presents outcomes from a Regional Workshop on the Use of Mobile Phone Data for Official Statistics, kindly hosted by BPS Indonesia in conjunction with UN ESCAP, UN DESA, Pulse Lab Jakarta and the UN Global Working Group on Big Data for Official Statistics. The workshop brought together ten countries for hands on, practical experience in using mobile phone data for official statistics. Whilst mobile phone data use for official statistics is in its infancy in Asia and the Pacific, participants identified ten reasons why they were already using or interested in using mobile phone data as part of their official statistics business, and these are described in the paper.