Volume 45 - Article 28 | Pages 871–902
Short- to medium-run forecasting of mobility with dynamic linear models
Date received: | 15 Jul 2020 |
Date published: | 29 Sep 2021 |
Word count: | 6337 |
Keywords: | COVID-19, dynamic linear model, internal migration, short- to medium-term forecast |
DOI: | 10.4054/DemRes.2021.45.28 |
Abstract
Background: Long-term projections of mobility are key inputs to sub-national population projections. These long-term projections are based on extrapolations of long-term trends. In cases of strong, potentially temporal, fluctuations it is informative to analyse the short- to medium-term dynamics of mobility, using data of monthly frequency.
Objective: We develop two univariate models to forecast short- to medium-term mobility in the Netherlands. We apply a recent turning point in the time series of mobility to demonstrate how short- to medium-term forecasts can provide early warning signals about possible changes in the annual trend.
Methods: The models we apply are Dynamic Linear Models (DLMs) which belong to the state space family of models. The two models developed in the paper incorporate trend, seasonal and autoregressive components but differ in the representation of the long-term trend. Posterior sampling allows for calculation of consistent prediction intervals for both monthly and annual data.
Conclusions: Forecast accuracy is evaluated using time series cross-validation. Point forecast errors and calibration of prediction intervals are compared to those of several other popular univariate forecasting models. One of our DLM models is more accurate than the models included as comparison.
Contribution: The paper shows how short- to medium-term forecasts of mobility can be used to inform long-term projections based on annual data. This will be a challenging task for statistical offices generating post-COVID-19 demographic projections.
Author's Affiliation
Trond Husby - Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving (PBL), the Netherlands
Hans Visser - Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving (PBL), the Netherlands
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