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There is a continuing need for an integrated and coherent system of socioeconomic statistics. However, no agreed conceptual approach has emerged. We show how a coherent structure of socio-economic statistics might be assembled, building in part on ideas developed for the UN’s (1975) System of Social and Demographic Statistics, Duster and Land’s (1981) discussion of demographic versus time-based systems of social accounts, and Statistics Canada’s LifePaths mi-crosimulation model.
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Wolfson, M.C. (1997). Sketching LifePaths: A New Framework for Socio-Economic Statistics. In: Conte, R., Hegselmann, R., Terna, P. (eds) Simulating Social Phenomena. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 456. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03366-1_40
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