In developing my own recipe to synthesize a population using ACS and PUMS, I ran into the below error:
raise RuntimeError(
'There is a mismatch between the constraints and the total '
'number of households to draw. The total to draw appears '
'to be higher than indicated by the constraints.')
The ultimate cause was found to be a typo in my recipe, where one field that was to be mapped between the two datasets had a value typed incorrectly. As a result, the above error arose in some block groups when this particular value arose in the marginal distribution.
Proposing developing a utility for checking recipes before they are run through the synthesizer. This could check for:
Field name mapping consistency
Field value mapping consistency
Presence and correct structure of required methods (e.g., get_household_marginal_for_geography).
In developing my own recipe to synthesize a population using ACS and PUMS, I ran into the below error:
The ultimate cause was found to be a typo in my recipe, where one field that was to be mapped between the two datasets had a value typed incorrectly. As a result, the above error arose in some block groups when this particular value arose in the marginal distribution.
Proposing developing a utility for checking recipes before they are run through the synthesizer. This could check for:
get_household_marginal_for_geography).