Andy Turner's MoSeS Report 2006-06-22 Page

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Introduction

• This is the first in a planned ongoing series of regular progress reports detailing progress Andy has made on MoSeS
• Progress concerns addressing actions from previous meetings, currently actions from:
  • Meeting on 2006-05-23
    • Advise Mark what to write in para 6 Section 3.2 of this document
    • Develop flow diagrams:
      • UML of MoSeS code
      • UML flow diagram of MoSeS code
      • Descriptive flow diagram outlining the population initialisation process
    • Develop a new version of the population initialisation process based on the Modelling Decisions agreed in this meeting...
      • Apply age control totals (constraints) to HRPs only instead of total population
      • Use Household SAR exclusively for household populations
      • Continue to use ISAR for communal establishment populations
      • Constrain and optimise based on MSOA totals rather than OA totals
      • Aggregate to MSOAs for reporting purposes
  • Meeting on 2006-06-16
    • Report progress weekly, first report due 2006-06-22
    • Communicate with Mark if any major problems are encountered
• This report covers progress in the week 2006-06-15 to 2006-06-22.

Summary of Progress

• Downloaded CASUV004, CAS003
• Began writing a data handler and class for CASUV004... (This now no longer on the critical path due to decision to implement method for disaggregating AGEH)
• Began writing a data handler and class for CAS003...
• Started writing methods for merging aggregated MSOA tables into a single table...
• Convenience method written so that households populations (sets of HSAR records) for HRPs of specific age can be obtained easily... Done

Details of work and problems encountered and things to do

• Due to HSAR AGEH aggregation we have a problem
  • Plan to disaggregated AGEH to single years of age
  • For the time being use a random assignment
    • A (trivial) processing task needed...
  • In the medium term use Jin's work
• It has been ages since a code release... Should look to push things out again very soon... The documentation and code online are getting very out of date...