An Autumn School dedicated to the microsimulation

The InGRID autumn school on ‘Elaborating a discrete-time dynamic microsimulation model with LIAM2, an open source development tool’ was intended as an extensive introduction for those who wished to initiate the development of a dynamic microsimulation model.

The InGRID autumn school on ‘Elaborating a discrete-time dynamic microsimulation model with LIAM2, an open source development tool’ was intended as an extensive introduction for those who wished to initiate (or know more about) the development of a dynamic microsimulation model.

36 participants attended to the 2.5 days courses from November 16^th to 18^th, 2015.

After an overview of basic concepts, participants started working on their own simple dynamic model from scratch, using the open source toolbox LIAM2. There was no need for prior knowledge of LIAM2 which has been introduced from zero. Both basic and more advanced modelling methodologies have been also introduced.

Now after this workshop, the participants know enough to start the development of their own microsimulation model, including importing datasets and produce understandable output tables.

The speakers were:

• Gijs Dekkers (Federal Planning Bureau, CESO/University of Leuven, Belgium, and LISER, Luxembourg)
• Gaëtan de Menten (Federal Planning Bureau)
• Raphaël Desmet (Federal Planning Bureau)
• Philippe Liégeois (LISER)