From co-location patterns to an informal social network of gig economy workers

Applied Network Science

Table 1 Summary of the cities used in the study

City	Population	Population coverage (%)	Area (km²)	Region	Couriers	Distinct co-locations	Events
C2	2530701	87.4	274.0	Southeast	6278	41196	220630
C3	1963726	85.6	336.5	South	5102	18339	81906
C1	2703391	87.3	253.7	Northeast	18257	9843	41008
C4	1223237	73.4	245.1	Southeast	9659	11366	61508
C6	695328	76.3	134.9	Southeast	3312	5014	21296
C8	580870	80.7	129.4	South	702	6733	32258
C9	737310	60.9	128.9	Southeast	2233	7364	32862
C7	623614	75.3	160.6	Central West	1314	7575	26736
C5	871126	74.8	172.3	North	2625	5061	29286
C13	260690	73.6	74.4	Southeast	396	1628	6552
C12	282164	78.9	49.9	Southeast	476	1710	10098
C10	417478	79.4	73.5	Southeast	1751	1952	15748
C11	343643	70.8	77.5	Northeast	465	1456	10044
C14	95320	9.0	32.5	South	16	105	236
C15	11507	54.9	26.9	North	35	139	1248

Population refers to the total resident population of the city, coverage is the population coverage by the mobile phone application service. Area is the urban area of the city in km\(^2\) (IBGE 2019). Region is the geographical region that groups several states. Couriers are the total quantity of active couriers in the city (with at least 1 order in the 14 days prior to or after the studied period). Distinct co-locations are the total count of unique latitude and longitude places where we have at least one co-location. Events are the total number of considered events after the data cleaning process. The chosen cities have a mean population density of \(5176 \pm 2402\) residents per km\(^2\)