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The education module for SVERIGE: Documentation V 1.0 Terance J. Rephann Spatial Modelling Centre Box 839 S 981 28 Kiruna, Sweden http://www.smc.kiruna.se tre@smc.kiruna.se March 4, 1999 1 1.0 Microsimulation model history and structure SVERIGE is a dynamic economic-demographic-environmental spatial microsimulation model for Sweden. By microsimulation is meant that the model represents lifetime events and choices of individual units (or objects) as a combination of structural factors (usually included in discrete choice models as independent variables or used to organise transition matrices) and random disturbance (a Monte Carlo randomisation component). By dynamic is meant that microunit ageing and development occurs in a life cycle pattern, with initial microunit conditions being changed for subsequent periods by counters and sequenced model equations. Its core is based upon CORSIM (Cornell Microsimulation Model), which itself is a modification of Guy Orcutt’s DYNASIM (Dynamic Microsimulation Model), the first dynamic microsimulation model of its kind (Caldwell and Keister 1996). CORSIM has since sired other children as well, including a Canadian model named DYNACAN (Dynamic Microsimulation Model for Canada) (Morrison 1997). SVERIGE will differ in several important respects from its CORSIM parent and DYNACAN sibling. First, SVERIGE is a Swedish model and thus must explain behaviour in a different institutional context than either the CORSIM and DYNACAN North American models. The model core of CORSIM consists of nine modules (mortality, fertility, marriage, divorce, re-marriage, leaving home, education, employment and earnings, and immigration) that describe the human life cycle. Each module consists of equations that describe the beha