%0 Journal Article
%T Point process models for household distributions within small areal units
%A Zack W. Almquist
%A Carter T. Butts
%J Demographic Research
%D 2012
%I Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
%X Spatio-demographic data sets are increasingly available worldwide, permitting ever more realistic modeling and analysis of social processes ranging from mobility to disease trans- mission. The information provided by these data sets is typically aggregated by areal unit, for reasons of both privacy and administrative cost. Unfortunately, such aggregation does not permit fine-grained assessment of geography at the level of individual households. In this paper, we propose to partially address this problem via the development of point pro- cess models that can be used to effectively simulate the location of individual households within small areal units.
%U http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol26/22/