เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	Spatial Microsimulation	Microsimulation
สาขาวิชา	Human Geography	การจำลอง
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	2016	1957
ผู้ริเริ่ม	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
ประเภท	Method for generating and analysing synthetic individual-level populations within small areas	Policy simulation / computational social science
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	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.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	Small-Area Population Synthesis, Synthetic Population Generation, Geographical Microsimulation, Spatial Microdata Estimation	Mikrosimülasyon, micro-simulation, policy microsimulation
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	4	5
สรุป	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.