Possibly inconsistency between SOC exclusions and observed

[asongtoruin]

ONS Table 3 gives us a category of "Economically active (excluding full-time students): Unemployed". We have interpreted that as:

• economic_status 2 ("Economically active unemployed")
• pop_emp 3 ("unemployed")
• soc 4 (no category description in the yaml file, but it's "Students, Children and Unemployed")

However, soc 4 has an Exclusion listed with economic_status 2 (line 28 in this snippet):

https://github.com/Transport-for-the-North/caf.core/blob/a47c8b01bd5b2d88f3a2aebe684a4bca41186eff/src/caf/core/segments/soc.yml#L8-L29

Should this exclusion exist? Feels like it shouldn't to me.

[MatteoGravelluTfN]

Hi @asongtoruin, you are correct.

SOC4 should have the exclusion with economic_status=1 (econ. active employed) and economic_status=3 (econ. active employed student only), so 2 needs to be removed from the exclusion.

[asongtoruin]

Can this be actioned, ideally in the IPF branch? I don't think we have the ability to edit caf.core in place so it would need to be someone on TfN's side

[MatteoGravelluTfN]

Changed in IPF branch. Please let me know if any other changes are required.

[MatteoGravelluTfN]

@asongtoruin are you using at all in the in the model the aws.yml yet? Just checking as I believe Isaac used it but there might be some issues there that I've just detected.

[asongtoruin]

We might need to move the discussion away from this issue (as it's possibly unconnected) but no, to my knowledge the aws segment is just being used in the post-processing