By the end of the course the participants will have acquired detailed knowledge of and extensive hands-on experience in:

• Data preparation and matching of survey data
• Micro and macro data reconciliation:
• Balancing social accounting matrices and survey data using cross entropy distance
• Representative household approach in microsimulation
• Top down/bottom up approach in microsimulation
• Integrated approaches in microsimulation
• Sequential recalibration
• Building linkages with micro data sets
• Microsimulation and income distribution analysis
• Calibration of the integrated microsimulation model
• Implementation of the models in GAMS
• formulating scenarios and running policy simulations,
• reporting and interpreting the results.