Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Note: The source has discontinued this dataset with note-"With the discontinuation of the database that is the input for the MEI, we will no longer update the index after March 31, 2021. For questions, please contact Tyler Atkinson ( tyler.atkinson@dal.frb.org < tyler.atkinson@dal.frb.org>;)"   The Dallas Fed Mobility and Engagement Index (formerly the “Social Distancing Index”) summarizes the information in seven different variables based on geolocation data collected from a large sample of mobile devices to gain insight into the economic impact of the pandemic. The Mobility and Engagement Index measures the deviation from normal mobility behaviors induced by COVID-19. The updated name recognizes that social distancing, or the limiting of close contact with others outside your household, can be practiced while mobility and engagement improve. Along with revising the index’s name, we also changed the sign of the index to make it more intuitive as a measure of mobility and engagement. The underlying data is provided by SafeGraph. The national series is aggregated from county-level data with device counts as weights. Similar for the states. In the county files, the county name is in the first row, with FIPS code in the variable name. MSA data are for metro statistical areas (MSA), aggregated from county data using the March 2020. MSA names are in the first row, and CBSA codes in the variable name. The index is scaled so that the average of January-February is zero, and the lowest weekly value (week ended April 11) is -100. File names including 'weekly' are averages of the daily data. The data corresponds to the last day of the calendar week.