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The Daily. Thursday, October 14, 1999
The Social policy simulation database and model: Version 7.0 (SPSD/M), which is based on 1995 microdata, is now available. The SPSD/M is a static microsimulation model. It includes a database, a series of tax/transfer algorithms and models, analytical software and user documentation. The SPSD/M has been produced as an occasional product since 1985. It has been widely used by policy analysts in Canada studying virtually every change to the tax and transfer system since since then.
The SPSD/M is a tool designed to analyze the financial interactions of governments and individuals/families in Canada. It allows estimation of the income redistributive effects or cost implications of changes in the personal taxation and cash transfer system. The SPSD/M assists researchers examining the potential impacts of changes in taxes, earnings, demographic trends, and a wide range of other factors. It can be used to study federal and provincial tax and transfer changes from 1984 through 2001.
The SPSD/M allows the user to answer "what-if" types of questions. What if there were a change to the taxes Canadians paid or transfers they received? Would single parent households in a particular province be better off? By how much? How much extra money would federal or provincial governments collect or pay out?
The Social policy simulation database and model: Version 7.0 is now available on CD-ROM (89F0002XCB, $5,000/$12,500).
For more information, or to order this product, contact Susan Carrothers (613-951-1782; spsdm@statcan.gc.ca), Socio-Economic Modeling Group, Social and Economic Studies Division.