The Cabildo's Data Center has conducted a study on the mobility of the population of Lanzarote since the state of alarm began, which reveals that the confinement has reduced the movements of Lanzarote residents outside their municipalities of residence by 64.6% during normal working hours.
In this study, the Cabildo's Data Center has taken as a "normal" day the average of movements recorded between Monday 18 and Thursday 21 November, which was 25.1% of the population, to compare them with the figures recorded during confinement, which it claims to have reached through the analysis of the position of mobile phones. These, it indicates, correspond to the percentage of people who during normal working hours (from 10 am to 4 pm) are outside their usual area of residence, since it points out that movements within it cannot be detected with this methodology.
In this way, it estimates that on the day the state of alarm began, Sunday 15 March, 13.5% of Lanzarote citizens left their area of residence, i.e. 53.7% of those who did so on a normal day. Two days later, the movements were reduced to 11.5% until reaching 5.7% on Saturday 21 March.
Displacements, lower during weekends and holidays
Since then, the percentage of people who have left their areas of residence throughout the state of alarm has ranged between 7.6 and 10 percent from Monday to Thursday, with the last figure recorded, corresponding to 20 April, being 8.9%.
Thus, just over a third of the people who left their municipality on a normal day, specifically 35.4%, were still doing so 10 days ago, which represents a decrease of 64.6% in the movements of citizens between municipalities.
The percentage of people who have left their area of residence during weekends or holidays such as Easter has been lower. In the case of Fridays, the number of movements has been around 6%, while on Saturdays it has been less than 5%. In the case of Sundays, however, it has exceeded 9%.
Arrecife, divided into two districts
The study by the Cabildo's Data Center also gives detailed figures for the municipalities. In the case of Arrecife, it distinguishes between two districts, one first made up of Las Salinas, San Francisco Javier, the city center, Valterra, Los Alonso, Tenorio and a large part of the La Vega neighborhood; and one followed by Argana Alta, Argana Baja, Maneje, El Cable, La Concha, Titerroy, Altavista and a part of the La Vega neighborhood.
With respect to District 1, the Data Center puts the percentage of people who left their areas of residence on a normal day at 32.1% and those who did so as of April 20 at 11.7%. Thus, in this case, mobility has been reduced by 63.6%.
For its part, in District 2, the movements have been reduced by 63.3%, since on a normal day the percentage of people who moved outside their area of residence was 28.3%, while 10.4% were still doing so on April 20.
The residents of Teguise and Tinajo, those who have continued to move the most
In the case of the residents of the municipalities of Haría, San Bartolomé, Tías and Yaiza, the study also reveals that only about a third of the citizens who were already moving outside their area of residence have continued to do so on working days.
However, the percentage of displacements of the residents of Teguise and Tinajo to other municipalities has been higher. Specifically, in the case of Teguise, it is estimated that the percentage of citizens who left their area of residence on a normal day was 26.7, while on April 20 it was 12.7%. Thus, mobility has only been reduced in this case by 52.5%.
With respect to the movements of the residents of Tinajo to other municipalities, the decrease is even less, specifically 50.7%. And it is that, the percentage of citizens residing in Tinajo who moved outside was 22.9% on a normal day and 11.3% were still doing so on April 20.
