B. Detailed Results

Additional details of the results and evaluation procedure are included in this appendix.


Table B.1: Validation tables used to evaluate the goodness-of-fit of synthetic population, with the cell count in parentheses.
1D STs (entire PUMA)   1D STs (by zone)    
AGEP (6)   CTCODE × AGEP (4386)    
CFSTAT (5)   CTCODE × CFSTAT (3655)    
HLOSP (6)   CTCODE × HLOSP (4386)    
LFACT (3)   CTCODE × LFACT (2193)    
OCC81P (16)   CTCODE × OCC81P (11696)    
SEXP (2)   CTCODE × SEXP (1462)    
CTCODE (731)        
2-3D STs (entire PUMA)   2-3D STs (by zone)   2-3D (only in PUMS)
AGEP × CFSTAT (20)   CTCODE × AGEP × CFSTAT (14620)   AGEP × TOTINCP (104)
AGEP × CFSTAT × SEXP (40)   CTCODE × AGEP × CFSTAT × SEXP (29240)   CFSTAT × HLOSP (63)
AGEP × HLOSP (36)   CTCODE × AGEP × HLOSP (26316)   CFSTAT × OCC81P (112)
AGEP × HLOSP × SEXP (72)   CTCODE × AGEP × HLOSP × SEXP (52632)   CFSTAT × TOTINCP (91)
AGEP × LFACT (18)   CTCODE × AGEP × LFACT (13158)   HLOSP × OCC81P (144)
AGEP × LFACT × SEXP (36)   CTCODE × AGEP × LFACT × SEXP (26316)   HLOSP × TOTINCP (117)
AGEP × SEXP (12)   CTCODE × AGEP × SEXP (11696)   OCC81P × TOTINCP (208)
CFSTAT × SEXP (10)   CTCODE × CFSTAT × SEXP (7310)   AGEP × CFSTAT × HLOSP (504)
HLOSP × LFACT (21)   CTCODE × HLOSP × LFACT (15351)   AGEP × CFSTAT × OCC81P (896)
HLOSP × LFACT × SEXP (42)   CTCODE × HLOSP × LFACT × SEXP (30702)   AGEP × CFSTAT × TOTINCP (728)
HLOSP × SEXP (12)   CTCODE × HLOSP × SEXP (8772)   AGEP × HLOSP × TOTINCP (936)
LFACT × SEXP (6)   CTCODE × LFACT × SEXP (4386)   CFSTAT × HLOSP × OCC81P (1008)
OCC81P × SEXP (32)   CTCODE × OCC81P × SEXP (23392)   CFSTAT × HLOSP × TOTINCP (819)
SEXP × TOTINCP (24)   CTCODE × SEXP × TOTINCP (17544)   CFSTAT × OCC81P × TOTINCP (1456)
        HLOSP × OCC81P × TOTINCP (1872)



Table B.2: Detailed results of experiments I1-I10, testing goodness-of-fit of IPF under varying amounts of input data. Each column shows the results of a single experiment, measured using SRMSE × 1000 against a single validation table. The input data and description of these experiments can be found in Table 6.2.
Experiment
Almost no geography Zone-by-zone Multizone
I1 I2 I3 I4 I5 I6 I7 I8 I9 I10
1. 1D STs (entire PUMA)
    AGEP 0 1 1 1 5 1 2 1 0 0
    CFSTAT 1 0 0 1 3 2 2 1 0 0
    CTCODE 0 0 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1
    HLOSP 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 1 0 0
    LFACT 3 1 3 1 2 1 2 1 0 0
    OCC81P 0 0 0 0 9 3 7 2 0 0
    SEXP 0 1 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 0
2. 1D STs (by zone)
    CTCODE × AGEP 311 309 309 309 2 3 1 1 3 1
    CTCODE × CFSTAT 408 407 407 407 4 6 3 2 7 2
    CTCODE × HLOSP 401 402 402 402 3 3 3 3 3 3
    CTCODE × LFACT 157 156 156 156 4 3 3 2 3 2
    CTCODE × OCC81P 439 437 437 437 0 0 1 0 1 1
    CTCODE × SEXP 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 1 1
3. 2-3D STs (entire PUMA)
    AGEP × CFSTAT 286 13 2 1 272 13 3 1 13 0
    AGEP × CFSTAT × SEXP 320 14 2 2 303 20 3 1 14 0
    AGEP × HLOSP 224 20 2 3 224 39 14 7 20 0
    AGEP × HLOSP × SEXP 273 29 2 3 271 44 16 8 30 0
    AGEP × LFACT 222 10 3 2 214 8 7 2 10 0
    AGEP × LFACT × SEXP 276 12 3 2 265 13 9 4 12 0
    AGEP × SEXP 105 3 2 1 99 7 2 1 3 0
    CFSTAT × SEXP 68 5 0 1 61 10 2 1 5 0
    HLOSP × LFACT 232 38 3 2 229 38 6 2 38 0
    HLOSP × LFACT × SEXP 282 44 3 2 280 44 8 3 44 0
    HLOSP × SEXP 67 10 1 2 69 7 2 1 10 0
    LFACT × SEXP 84 3 3 1 83 2 2 1 2 0
    OCC81P × SEXP 244 6 0 0 242 10 14 3 6 0
    SEXP × TOTINCP 0 1 0 1 12 7 14 7 0 0
4. 2-3D STs (by zone)
    CTCODE × AGEP × CFSTAT 835 776 776 776 348 153 5 4 154 4
    CTCODE × AGEP × CFSTAT × SEXP 871 800 800 800 405 222 7 5 223 5
    CTCODE × AGEP × HLOSP 661 618 617 617 334 199 3 2 196 2
    CTCODE × AGEP × HLOSP × SEXP 697 637 636 636 410 268 3 2 267 2
    CTCODE × AGEP × LFACT 535 475 475 475 259 91 2 2 91 2
    CTCODE × AGEP × LFACT × SEXP 580 497 497 497 331 155 3 2 156 2
    CTCODE × AGEP × SEXP 388 354 362 354 173 88 0 0 88 0
    CTCODE × CFSTAT × SEXP 434 426 426 426 105 83 4 3 82 3
    CTCODE × HLOSP × LFACT 643 594 592 592 284 130 2 2 131 2
    CTCODE × HLOSP × LFACT × SEXP 689 623 622 622 370 192 3 2 193 3
    CTCODE × HLOSP × SEXP 413 408 407 407 114 77 1 1 77 1
    CTCODE × LFACT × SEXP 187 166 166 166 95 38 2 2 39 2
    CTCODE × OCC81P × SEXP 553 489 489 489 297 125 6 5 126 5
    CTCODE × SEXP × TOTINCP 444 444 444 444 3 5 3 3 7 4
5. 2-3D (only in PUMS)
    AGEP × TOTINCP 479 9 434 4 461 27 389 23 9 0
    CFSTAT × HLOSP 255 38 176 3 260 52 171 35 38 0
    CFSTAT × OCC81P 353 9 253 1 334 27 239 28 9 0
    CFSTAT × TOTINCP 358 6 304 3 341 23 278 23 6 0
    HLOSP × OCC81P 539 41 298 2 516 54 253 30 40 0
    HLOSP × TOTINCP 422 29 373 3 363 47 299 33 29 0
    OCC81P × TOTINCP 746 6 751 2 726 48 723 45 6 0
    AGEP × CFSTAT × HLOSP 923 73 619 12 919 134 458 74 73 0
    AGEP × CFSTAT × OCC81P 1198 50 755 10 1158 75 623 61 49 0
    AGEP × CFSTAT × TOTINCP 1117 27 952 9 1072 63 863 56 27 0
    AGEP × HLOSP × TOTINCP 1111 54 995 10 1066 100 850 61 54 0
    CFSTAT × HLOSP × OCC81P 1189 80 865 6 1152 113 780 81 80 0
    CFSTAT × HLOSP × TOTINCP 1071 57 976 7 991 103 849 80 57 0
    CFSTAT × OCC81P × TOTINCP 1798 25 1771 6 1742 112 1684 107 26 0
    HLOSP × OCC81P × TOTINCP 1684 67 1501 7 1622 127 1427 100 67 0