Synthetic population are initial sets of agents with detailed demographic and socioeconomic attributes, which allow execution of agent-based microsimulation.
[5] Due to privacy reasons and data limitations and restrict observability of entire real population.
The population is modeled as a set of heterogeneous, interacting, adaptive agents.
[6] In 2023, World Data Lab created a synthetic population for New York using microdata and summary statistics.
[7] It was used to calculate the poverty levels among the neighborhoods for targeted social programs.