Future Year Population

Introduction

Developing the Synthetic Population control files and seed data for a base or existing year is a relatively straight forward exercise. The near current data (usually just two years back) is available from census.gov, and a user just needs to associate the census data of interest with the approriate zones or geographies for the Synthetic Population (there's a little more to it than that, but at a high level it's a fairly simple process). For future years, there is no official data set to use. Therefore, a methodology and process needs to be established to develop the control files and seed data for future years.

In Oregon, the Population Research Center (PRC) at Portland State University (PSU) is responsible for forecasting the population into the future.

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