Introducing CASCADEPOP: an open-source sociodemographic simulation platform for us health policy appraisal.

ABSTRACT: Largescale individual-level and agent-based models are gaining importance in health policy appraisal and evaluation. Such models require the accurate depiction of the jurisdiction's population over extended time periods to enable modeling of the development of non-communicable diseases under consideration of historical, sociodemographic developments. We developed CASCADEPOP to provide a readily available sociodemographic micro-synthesis and microsimulation platform for US populations. The micro-synthesis method used iterative proportional fitting to integrate data from the US Census, the American Community Survey, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Multiple Cause of Death Files, and several national surveys to produce a synthetic population aged 12 to 80 years on 01/01/1980 for five state

SUBMITTER: Brennan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8057701 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature