Validating a dynamic population microsimulation model: Recent experience in Australia
- University of Canberra, Australia
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as: A. Harding, M. Keegan, S. Kelly; 2010; Validating a dynamic population microsimulation model: Recent experience in Australia; International Journal of Microsimulation; 3(2); 46-64.
doi: 10.34196/ijm.00038
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Figure 1
Output structure of a typical discrete time dynamic population microsimulation model.
Figure 2
Outline of the processes simulated in APPSIM/2010A.
Figure 3
Extract from APPSIM ‘everyone output’ for Year t.
Figure 4
Sample labour force output from APPSIM’s automatically generated summary statistics report.
Note: the labour force output here is unaligned. The black dotted lines are labour force projections from a 2005 Productivity Commission report.
Figure 5
Percentage of people who are retired, age 55–74, APPSIM and HILDA 2006, by age and sex.
Source: APPSIM simulations, HILDA 2006.
Figure 6
Labour force states of men in 2047, APPSIM and treasury projections.
Source: Treasury (2007) and APPSIM simulations.
Figure 7
Labour force transitions in HILDA and APPSIM, 2004–2005.
Source: HILDA, APPSIM calculations.
Figure 8
Distribution of years spent in labour force by sex, 65–70 year olds in 2051.
Source: APPSIM simulations.
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