Abstract
Spatio-demographic data sets are increasingly available worldwide, permitting ever more realistic modeling and analysis of social processes ranging from mobility to disease trans-mission. The information provided by these data sets is typically aggregated by areal unit, for reasons of both privacy and administrative cost. Unfortunately, such aggregation does not permit fine-grained assessment of geography at the level of individual households. In this paper, we propose to partially address this problem via the development of point pro-cess models that can be used to effectively simulate the location of individual households within small areal units.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 593-632 |
Number of pages | 40 |
Journal | Demographic Research |
Volume | 26 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2012 |