Boligmodel

The DREAM-group produces a project in housing economics, which provides a projection of future housing demand in Denmark for the period until 2050. To project future trends in family structure DREAM develops a micro-simulation model. Changes in the number of families are projected on the basis of a number of demographic events: birth, death, immigration, emigration, children leaving home, divorce and formation of new couples. This paper describes how these demographic events are currently modelled in the preliminary version of the micro-simulation model.

This paper introduces a new algorithm for pair matching. The method is called SBAM (Sparse Biproportionate Adjustment Matching) and can be characterized as either cross-entropy minimizing or matrix balancing. The method is demonstrated in the context of a new Danish microsimulation model.

The DREAM-group produduces a project in housing economics, which provides a projection of future housing demand in Denmark for the period until 2050. The project requires fundamental information on the housing market in Denmark that is brought up to date. This survey describes the occupied housing stock in Denmark in the period 2000-11 and the movement patterns of occupants in 2000-10. Accordingly, a main objective is to identify weaknesses in data that may be relevant to the project.