Demographic Disaggregation in the Construction of Regional Econometric Models: A Statistical Evaluation

Carol A. Taylor
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Carol A. Taylor: Division of Economic and Business Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85718 USA

International Regional Science Review, 1982, vol. 7, issue 1, 25-51

Abstract: A cohort-component method is used to construct historical annual age/sex disaggregations of total population. In econometric models of six substate areas, regressions are estimated with and without the disaggregated data for five model variables expected to be dependent on the size of particular population subgroups. Statistical tests are performed to determine significant differences in residual variance of estimation with and without the disaggregated data. Although age/sex population projections may be a desired model output per se, the results indicate that the population subgroup data generally do not improve estimation of other model variables.

Date: 1982
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DOI: 10.1177/016001768200700102

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