# Is there any microsimulation package in Julia?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-microsimulation-package-in-julia/20049>\
**Category:** Modelling & Simulations\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [January 24, 2019, 5:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-microsimulation-package-in-julia/20049 "2019-01-24T17:39:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![sbacelar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sbacelar/32/4359_2.png) [@sbacelar](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sbacelar)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 5:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-microsimulation-package-in-julia/20049/1 "2019-01-24T17:39:28Z")

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Something along the lines of `LIAM2` in Python or `MicSim` in R.

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**Author:** ![mkborregaard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mkborregaard/32/556_2.png) [@mkborregaard](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkborregaard)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 6:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-microsimulation-package-in-julia/20049/2 "2019-01-24T18:10:17Z")

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SimJulia.jl

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**Author:** ![sbacelar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sbacelar/32/4359_2.png) [@sbacelar](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sbacelar)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-microsimulation-package-in-julia/20049/3 "2019-01-24T18:22:49Z")

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Thank you I will read the documentation. Nevertheless I think (for what I’ve read) that SimJulia it’s not as specific or used for e.g. population demographic microsimulations like the two apps I mentioned above.

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**Author:** ![grahamstark](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/grahamstark/32/5200_2.png) [@grahamstark](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/grahamstark)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 6:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-microsimulation-package-in-julia/20049/4 "2019-02-26T18:19:22Z")

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Hi,

If this is tax-benefit model related stuff, I’ve written some [bits and pieces](https://github.com/grahamstark/TBComponents.jl) and plan to do much more in a month or so.

In the past I’ve looked at `LIAM2` and [JasMin](https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/library/view/801), a similar thing in Java, but I confess I’ve never really seen the point in them. Libraries of general purpose routines, rather than some overarching framework, are what’s needed, I think.

Be interested to know what you’re planning.

Graham

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**Author:** ![sbacelar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sbacelar/32/4359_2.png) [@sbacelar](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sbacelar)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 11:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-microsimulation-package-in-julia/20049/5 "2019-02-27T23:26:08Z")

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Hi,

I am reading with great interest your code which is beyond my expertise.  
My plan is to study variation of favorability of heterogeneous agents to public retirement pensions. That is a study situated between political science and political economy. I want to combine agent-based modelling with microsimulation. Microsimulation is important to me, mainly to study the demographic evolution of population.

Sergio