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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://philmikejones.me/2016/12/21/spatial-microsimulation-101/"> rstats – philmikejones.me</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<p>I recently gave a presentation for analysts and data modellers at the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions/about/statistics">Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)</a> introducing the spatial microsimulation technique (specifically the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterative_proportional_fitting">IPF</a> flavour), and below are the slides I used (use <code>spacebar</code> to navigate through the slides):</p>
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<p>Much of the content is based on material from <em>Spatial Microsimulation with R</em> by Robin Lovelace and Morgane Dumont (<a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://robinlovelace.net/spatial-microsim-book/">online content</a> | <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.crcpress.com/Spatial-Microsimulation-with-R/Lovelace-Dumont/p/book/9781498711548">physical book</a>) and my own <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=rakeR">rakeR package</a> for R. For the presentation I also created a spatial model of tax credits claimants in Doncaster based on data I already had for Doncaster and survey responses from <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/">Understanding Society</a>. NB: don’t use the model results in any analysis; they were created quickly to demonstrate the concept and as such haven’t been tested or validated in any way.</p>
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