Evaluating the Socioeconomic Status of a Large Social Event Attendees

Abstract

In this study, Call Detail Records (CDRs) from downtown Budapest were analysed, focusing on a large scale event in August 2014. The attendees of the main event of the Hungarian State Foundation Day have been analysed based on their socioeconomic status (SES). This paper proposes an approach to estimating SES by the price and age of the subscribers' phones, obtained by fusing a mobile phone property database with the CDRs. We have found some tendencies between the attendees based on the location, from where they watched the fireworks. However, the results do not show significant differences in this geographical granularity.