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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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... This chapter describes the basic methodology for making cohort component population projections. This methodology, which is used by the Census Bureau and the SSA, requires four inputs: a baseline population and assumptions regarding future fertility, mortality, and migration.
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  • population projections
  • census bureau
  • population projection
  • cohort component
  • population size

  • baseline population
  • future population
  • external validation
  • median projections
  • actual population


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