Automatic Dwelling Segmentation of Buenos Aires Province for the 2010 Argentinian Census

BONOMO, FLAVIA; DURAN, GUILLERMO ALFREDO; DELLE DONNE, DIEGO; MARENCO, JAVIER

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Año: 2013 vol. 43 p. 373 - 384

0092-2102

One of the logistical challenges in planning a population census is determining whichdwellings each enumerator must visit within a census tract. This is known as the dwellingsegmentation problem, which generally includes a set of constraints on the enumerators'assigned routes and various criteria regarding the homogeneity and uniformity of thesegmentation solutions. In this work, we present a computational approach for this prob-lem, which represents an improvement over manual methods and existing software. Theresulting method was successfully applied to the Province of Buenos Aires in the 2010Argentinian census.