Subject	Transportation, Social Sciences
Specific subject area	Human mobility and socioeconomic variables
Data type	File and GIS (shapefile)
How the data were acquired	The mobility datasets were derived from a raw call detail records (CDR) dataset, which is itself undisclosed. The socioeconomic data were extracted from the 2010 Brazilian census database.
Data format	Tab delimited
Description of the data collection	This data descriptor presents two main datasets and a set of auxiliary files. The mobility dataset presents a long-term study of human mobility in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area (RJMA) performed in the entire year of 2014 based on mobile phone data. The socioeconomic dataset presents selected socioeconomic variables of the Brazilian 2010 census. A set of auxiliary files is included to present georeferenced information and geographic attributes (shapefiles) and data used to validate the mobility estimates.
Data source location	Institutions: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ and Fundação Getulio Vargas - FGV City: Rio de Janeiro Region: Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area Country: Brazil
Data accessibility	Repository name: FGV Dataverse Direct URL to Data: https://dataverse.fgv.br/dataverse/RJMA