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{
    "link": "https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/",
    "retrievedDate": "2024-07-30",
    "additionalInfo": "Google provide an overview of what its mobility trends represent and how it's measured here: https://support.google.com/covid19-mobility/answer/9824897?hl=en&ref_topic=9822927\n\nAs it describes:\n\"The data shows how visitors to (or time spent in) categorized places change compared to our baseline days. A baseline day represents a normal value for that day of the week. The baseline day is the median value from the 5week period Jan 3 - Feb 6, 2020.\n\nFor each region-category, the baseline isn't a single value-it's 7 individual values. The same number of visitors on 2 different days of the week, result in different percentage changes. So, we recommend the following:\n\n- Don't infer that larger changes mean more visitors or smaller changes mean less visitors.\n- Avoid comparing day-to-day changes. Especially weekends with weekdays.\"\n\nMobility trends are measured across six broad categories:\n(1) Residential: places of residence.\n(2) Grocery & Pharmacy stores: places like grocery markets, food warehouses, farmers markets, specialty food shops, drug stores, and pharmacies.\n(3) Workplaces: places of work.\n(4) Parks: places like local parks, national parks, public beaches, marinas, dog parks, plazas, and public gardens.\n(5) Transit stations: places like public transport hubs such as subway, bus, and train stations.\n(6) Retail & Recreation: places like restaurants, cafes, shopping centers, theme parks, museums, libraries, and movie theaters.\n\nThe 'Residential' category shows a change in duration-the other categories measure a change in total visitors.\n\nThis index is smoothed to the rolling 7-day average.",
    "dataPublishedBy": "Google LLC \"Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports\"."
}