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Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions -- The Uses of Microsimulation Modeling Volume II, Technical Papers (1991) / Chapter Skim
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... It was created by combining individual administrative data from personal income tax returns and unemployment insurance claimants' histories with survey data on family incomes and expenditure patterns (see Database Creation below)
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... The resultant SPSD~I database consists of six types of variables: · Demographic variables from the SCF include age, sex, province, and family structure. A number of classification variables such as industry, occupation, educational status, labor force characteristics, and housing tenure are also present.
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Key Terms

  • labor force
  • database creation
  • statistics canada
  • iterative proportional
  • employment status

  • mainframe computer
  • control totals
  • administrative data
  • income tax
  • expenditure survey

  • disk space
  • host data


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