Сравнение на методи

	Spatial Microsimulation	Микросимулация
Област	Human Geography	Симулационно моделиране
Семейство	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Година на възникване	2016	1957
Създател	Developed in the IPF/microsimulation tradition; synthesized for geography by Lovelace & Dumont	Guy Orcutt (concept, 1957); modern tax-transfer frameworks developed through EUROMOD and related projects
Тип	Method for generating and analysing synthetic individual-level populations within small areas	Policy simulation / computational social science
Основополагащ източник	Lovelace, R., & Dumont, M. (2016). Spatial Microsimulation with R. Chapman and Hall/CRC, Boca Raton. ISBN: 9781498711548	O'Donoghue, C. (Ed.) (2014). Handbook of Microsimulation Modelling. Emerald.
Други названия	Small-Area Population Synthesis, Synthetic Population Generation, Geographical Microsimulation, Spatial Microdata Estimation	Mikrosimülasyon, micro-simulation, policy microsimulation
Свързани	4	5
Резюме	Spatial microsimulation is a family of techniques for generating realistic synthetic populations of individuals within small geographic areas, by combining detailed but geographically coarse survey microdata with geographically fine but aggregate census tables. It estimates, for every neighbourhood, a population of individuals whose collective characteristics match the published margins — the right number of each age, sex, income, and tenure group — even though no survey directly samples individuals at that fine scale. Synthesized for the geographic community in Robin Lovelace and Morgane Dumont's 2016 book, it bridges the gap between rich individual data and small-area aggregates so that policy and behaviour can be modelled where people actually live.	Microsimulation is a computational method that simulates policy effects by operating directly on a population of individual micro-units — households, firms, patients — and applying rules to each unit according to its own demographic, economic, and behavioural characteristics. Developed conceptually by Guy Orcutt in 1957, it has become the standard tool for evaluating tax reform, pension systems, and health policy before implementation.