Patent ID: 8725554

Claim:
A household member number distribution estimation apparatus that estimates number of households per number of household members that is the number of households for each number of household members constituting a household in a region within a predetermined range, the household member number distribution estimation apparatus comprising: computer circuitry configured to function as a subscriber information acquisition section configured to acquire subscriber information that is information regarding subscribers of mobile terminals of a specific carrier in the region within the predetermined range and with which user IDs each of which is information for identifying a mobile terminal and household identifiers each of which is information for identifying a household to which a user of the mobile terminal belongs are associated; a household terminal number extraction section configured to, by referring to the subscriber information acquired by the subscriber information acquisition section and counting number of the user IDs with which the same household identifier is associated, extract number of household terminals that is number of the mobile terminals belonging to the household for each of the household identifiers; a household number extraction section configured to, by counting number of the household identifiers for which the numbers of household terminals extracted by the household terminal number extraction section are the same, extract number of households per number of terminals that is the number of households for each of the number of household terminals; a household number estimation section configured to acquire, from a population storage section, information regarding a population in the region within the predetermined range stored in the population storage section in advance of the acquiring by the subscriber information acquisition section, and, by using a terminal subscription rate that is a ratio of the number of the subscribers of the mobile terminals of the specific carrier to the population in the region within the predetermined range to correct the number of households per number of terminals extracted by the household number extraction section, estimate the number of households per number of household members; and a processing result output section configured to output the number of households per number of household members estimated by the household number estimation section.