Analyzing international airtime top-up transfers for migration and mobility.

IF 3.4 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

International Journal of Data Science and Analytics Pub Date : 2023-05-25 DOI:10.1007/s41060-023-00396-7

Bilgeçağ Aydoğdu, Hanif Samad, Shiqi Bai, Sami Abboud, Ilias Gorantis, Albert Ali Salah

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Abstract

International airtime top-up transfers enable prepaid mobile phone users to send top-ups and data bundles to users in other countries, as well as make payments, in real time. These are heavily used by migrants to financially assist their families in their home countries and consequently could be a valuable source of information for migration and mobility analysis. However, top-up transfers are understudied as a form of money remittance in migration. In this paper, we explore the determinants and the potential of top-up transactions to complement remittance and migration statistics. Our results show that such data can provide insights into migrant groups, particularly for irregular migration and for estimating the real-time distribution of migrant groups for a given country.

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分析移民和流动性的国际广播时间补充传输。

国际通话时间充值转账使预付费手机用户能够向其他国家的用户发送充值和数据包，并实时付款。移民大量使用这些工具在经济上帮助他们在本国的家人，因此可以成为移民和流动性分析的宝贵信息来源。然而，补充汇款作为移民汇款的一种形式却被低估了。在本文中，我们探讨了补充交易的决定因素和潜力，以补充汇款和移民统计数据。我们的研究结果表明，这些数据可以深入了解移民群体，特别是非正常移民，并用于估计特定国家移民群体的实时分布。

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International Journal of Data Science and Analytics Multiple-

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6.40

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8.30%

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