title: Demographic disaggregation in the construction of regional econometric models:  a statistical evaluation.
abstract: "A cohort-component method is used to construct historical annual age/sex disaggregations of total population.  In econometric models of six substate areas [in the United States], 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."  (summary in FRE, ITA, JPN, )
mesh_terms: D017677:Age Distribution; D000367:Age Factors; D000569:Americas; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005544:Forecasting; D005843:Geography; D018803:Models, Economic; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009656:North America; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D012106:Research; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012737:Sex Factors; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014481:United States
keywords: Age Distribution; Age Factors; Americas; Cohort Analysis; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Economic Model; Estimation Technics; Evaluation; Evaluation Methodology; Geographic Factors; Models, Theoretical; North America; Northern America; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Projection; Research Methodology; Sex Distribution; Sex Factors; Statistics; United States