Urban exodus? Understanding human mobility in Britain during the COVID‐19 pandemic using Meta‐Facebook data

• Published in: Population space and place Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. e2637 - n/a
• Main Authors: Rowe, Francisco, Calafiore, Alessia, Arribas‐Bel, Daniel, Samardzhiev, Krasen, Fleischmann, Martin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.01.2023; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Censuses; COVID-19; Great Britain; human mobility; internal migration; Intervention; Meta‐Facebook; mobile phone location data; Mobility; Pandemics; Rural areas; Rural population; Rural urban continuum; urban exodus; United Kingdom > UK; urban exodus; Great Britain; human mobility; COVID‐19; mobile phone location data; Meta‐Facebook; internal migration

Existing empirical work has focused on assessing the effectiveness of nonpharmaceutical interventions on human mobility to contain the spread of COVID‐19. Less is known about the ways in which the COVID‐19 pandemic has reshaped the spatial patterns of population movement within countries. Anecdotal...