MULTIREGION: a simulation-forecasting model of BEA economic area population and employment. [Bureau of Economic Analysis]

Technical Report · Sat Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1977

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/7295646· OSTI ID:7295646

Olsen, R. J.; Westley, G. W.; Herzog, Jr., H. W.; Kerley, C. R.; Bjornstad, D. J.; Vogt, D. P.; Bray, L. G.; Grady, S. T.; Nakosteen, R. A.

This report documents the development of MULTIREGION, a computer model of regional and interregional socio-economic development. The MULTIREGION model interprets the economy of each BEA economic area as a labor market, measures all activity in terms of people as members of the population (labor supply) or as employees (labor demand), and simultaneously simulates or forecasts the demands and supplies of labor in all BEA economic areas at five-year intervals. In general the outputs of MULTIREGION are intended to resemble those of the Water Resource Council's OBERS projections and to be put to similar planning and analysis purposes. This report has been written at two levels to serve the needs of multiple audiences. The body of the report serves as a fairly nontechnical overview of the entire MULTIREGION project; a series of technical appendixes provide detailed descriptions of the background empirical studies of births, deaths, migration, labor force participation, natural resource employment, manufacturing employment location, and local service employment used to construct the model.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., Tenn. (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-26
• OSTI ID: 7295646
• Report Number(s): ORNL/RUS-25
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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