Revision as of 18:18, 4 December 2024

Version 8.35 (December 4th, 2024)

You can download IFs Version 8.35 at IFs 8.35.

Fixes to Develpment profile, it was giving errors due to changes in Table Function Names for estandarization.
Fix to Vetting form on reading variables with character & like R&DGovt%GDP.
Fix errors when loading old URLs with wrong parameters, bad File Id, bad Dimension2.
Added Filter by Goal, to improve loading time to SDG Table form.
Added procedure to Save Forecast Directly to File, available in Flex Displays only in Development Mode.
Added Historical Analogs for DEATHCAT, Males and Females, only Total was previously configured.

Check if Origin Country can keep sending more people and Destination Country can keep receiving them. Check if Origin Country needs to send less people and Destination Country needs to receive less, unless Destination is a big country, 10 times bigger than origin.
Updating MIGRATEIN and MIGRATEOUT after Normalization to reflect real values.
Added migrateinr and migrateoutr, also changed MIGRATEIN and MIGRATEOUT to be initial conditions instead of parameters so that changes are saved in all years.
Converging migration rate to 0 from 2100 to 2200.
Added migrateinadd and migrateoutadd
Implemented changes to Bilateral Trade, similar to the ones in Bilateral Migration, trying to do smaller changes to Adjust to Monadic, using range of factors, max, min, and guided by each dyad requirements.
Change initialization of DEATHCAT for AIDS to take into account data for sex distribution.

Initialization of POPFOREIGNIN was restricted to using only 15 years from the base year when doing historical rebasing, that is using only data up to 1975 when 1960 is not available, solving problem for countries like Sahrawi, that didn't exist back in 1960 or 1975.

29 Tables inserted & updated
2 preprocessors updated, Ethnic percentages from CIA Factbook
6 tables updated (1 preprocessor), Freedom index from Fraser Institute
1 preprocessor updated, Freedom index from FreedomHouse
7 tables updated, poverty gap & poverty headcount from PIP, search for PIP as the suffix
4 preprocessors updated, GDP & GDP PC PPP at $2011 and $2017 prices
9 migration tables (2 calculated from Guy Abel & 6 derived from UNPD WPP)
50 duplicated rows removed from DataDict (UNPD WPP Rev2022)
WPP 2024 age/sex data for Population and Fertility

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 == Data Updates ==