Automatic Dwelling Segmentation of the Buenos Aires Province for the 2010 Argentinian Census

Flavia Bonomo (), Diego Delle Donne (), Guillermo Durán () and Javier Marenco
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Flavia Bonomo: Dto. de Computación, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and IMAS–CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Diego Delle Donne: Dto. de Computación, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Instituto de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Guillermo Durán: Dto. de Matemática, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Dto. de Ingeniería Industrial, FCEyN, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile; Instituto de Cálculo, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Interfaces, 2013, vol. 43, issue 4, 373-384

Abstract: In planning for a population census, determining which dwellings within a census tract each enumerator must visit is a logistical challenge. This challenge, which we call the dwelling segmentation problem, generally includes a set of constraints on the enumerators’ assigned routes and various criteria regarding the homogeneity and uniformity of the segmentation solutions. In this paper, we present a computational approach to solve this problem. We successfully applied our solution, which is a substantial improvement over manual methods, to the Province of Buenos Aires in the 2010 Argentinian census.

Keywords: population census; segmentation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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