The National Statistics Institute (INE) will follow the movements of mobile phones for eight days in the coming months in order to conduct a study, according to sources confirmed by the agency.

As the newspaper El País advances on Tuesday, the INE will analyze the displacements in four business days of November, from 18 to 21; a Sunday, November 24; a holiday, on December 25; and two days of summer, on July 20 and August 15 , also a holiday.

This is anonymous information since the INE will receive the positions of the numbers but not the owners and the three main operators (Movistar, Vodafone and Orange) have agreed to collaborate giving these data and processing them, reports Efe.

With the information collected, the INE can analyze aspects such as what are the most common displacements in everyday life, which movements are more common in vacations or better measure depopulation in the rural world.

To see this, the territory will be divided into cells and mobile positions will be taken at certain times, which will allow us to know, for example, from which cell to which cell they move to work or which are the most common holiday destinations.

The project is part of the new ways of making statistics in which European organizations work with more data collection with technology support.

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