Possibilities to Utilize New Electric Telephone Directories for Advanced Urban Analysis

Abstract

The conventional statistics provided by government have several problems to investigate the reality of urban activities. This study assumes electric telephone directories could complement the conventional statistics, especially at the small area from disaggregated and renovational point of view. It is clarified that electric telephone directories could provide very detail information with small scale. Some completely new urban analyses are also introduced by using this new data sources. It is also suggested that the appropriate telephone directory should be adopted for each different urban analysis with different purposes.