Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Increase resolution of household size #11

Open
virgesmith opened this issue Oct 30, 2017 · 1 comment
Open

Increase resolution of household size #11

virgesmith opened this issue Oct 30, 2017 · 1 comment
Assignees

Comments

@virgesmith
Copy link
Member

Request from Maria:

We had meeting this morning and we reviewed the job done. We have some thoughts about capturing the large families. By now, when there is more than 4 people - we don't know how many people there are.

Unless "4" is an analytical constrain for some reason, it would clever to refine the allocation algorithm - in order to include multi-generational or "joint" families (i.e. 5-6 people). This would mean to move the threshold from ">4" to ">6" (creating more categories), or to supply the actual number of people.

Would this be a problem for you?

@virgesmith virgesmith self-assigned this Oct 30, 2017
@virgesmith
Copy link
Member Author

virgesmith commented Oct 30, 2017

My initial response:
The census tables we are using LC4404/LC4405 only contain the following data about the occupants:

"C_SIZHUK11": {
  "0": "All categories: Household size",
  "1": "1 person in household",
  "2": "2 people in household",
  "3": "3 people in household",
  "4": "4 or more people in household"

So the “cap” comes from the census (or at least our choice of table). The one other (2011) household size table available at OA resolution – QS406EW – which goes up to 8+. The problem here is this table’s only other category is “rural-urban” which means we have no “link” variables (e.g. to assign to the correct tenure)

However, what we could do is postprocess the data, taking all the 4+ occupants entries and and reassigning to 4,5,6,7,8+ according to the other table totals for the OA (if the totals match between the tables).

If this works we may even be able to apply this to rooms and bedrooms, which would give us a better estimate of persons-per-bedroom.

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

1 participant