From October 2010, POPGROUP's Derived Forecasts module replaces Housegroup. Derived Forecasts provides all the functionality of Housegroup and much more. Derived Forecast summary (slide show).
The following notes describe the now relatively limited functions of Housegroup, which will be supported but not further developed.
Housegroup provides a means to make estimates of the number and type of households.
Users enter past information and their assumptions about the future for headship rates and the number of people living in communal establishments into Excel data sheets.
Housegroup uses a standard headship rate model to produce forecasts.
Housegroup may be used independently of Popgroup or use output from Popgroup.
Features include:
- Five year age groups, males and females separately
- One or more groups, which can be of any type for example:
Districts in a county
Ethnic groups in a district
Sub-areas in a district
- Government household types as default or amalgamation of them
- Decomposition into demographic change and household change
- Optional constraining of all groups household forecast (provided by user)
- Notes pages for documentation on every file
- Facilities to override or adjust standard data with user’s data for:
Number or percentage of residents not in households
Data for individual groups, and/or for the total of all groups
Constant headship rates, annual increments, or input for each year
- Charts and tables summarise and extract the results
- Decomposition of household change due to changes in population and in headship rates
- Security of results with cell and sheet protection
- All input can be copied for use and re-formatting in the user’s own documents
Download demonstration programs for HOUSEGROUP