The paper presents an application of spatial microsimulation methods for generating a synthetic population to estimate personal income in Poland in 2011 using census tables and EU-SILC 2011 microdata set. The first section presents a research problem and a brief overview of modern estimation methods in application to small domains with particular emphasis on spatial microsimulation. The second section contains an overview of selected synthetic population generation methods. In the last section personal income estimation on NUTS 3 level is presented with special emphasis on the quality of estimates.
JavaScript is turned off in your web browser. Turn it on to take full advantage of this site, then refresh the page.