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For this method of calibration, you must make an appropriate division of your study area into small subareas. The main difference from the Huff Model Calibration By Real Data method is that you are calculating the probabilities here based on survey data showing the proportions of trips made from each subarea to the store areas. Therefore, you don't need to have a point customer layer, because the survey is operating directly on the subareas.
The survey data must be collected in a survey table using one of the following formats:
- Several lines per one interviewed customer
List of customers' answers to the question, How often did you visit stores 1, 2, 3, or 4 during the last few weeks? The answer could be, Store 4—two times; store 3—four times. It should be tabulated as follows:
The Blockgroup ID should be the ID of the block group (BG) in which the customer lives. In this example, the last two lines came from interviewing another customer living in the same BG.Blockgroup ID Store ID Count 1232234234
4
2
1232234234
3
4
1232234234
4
1
1232234234
3
2
Several lines per one interviewed customer - One line per geography unit
It is a summarized version of the first variant. It can be calculated by summarizing the overall patronage count for a particular store from a particular block group, then calculating the percentage of people from this block group who visit each store. The same percentage can represent the percentage of money spent in this store.
Blockgroup ID Store ID Percentage 1232234234
4
12
1232234234
3
45
One line per geography unit - One line per interviewed customer
This variant may be more convenient for the people who do the survey.
For this variant, you will have a separate count (or dollar amount) field for every store. The table contains as many lines as the number of customers surveyed. Each customer indicates the number of times he or she visited each store. With this survey data, you can estimate the probabilities for each subarea that customers from that subarea will make trips to a specific store area.Blockgroup ID Store 1 Count Store 2 Count Store 3 Count Store 4 Count 1232234234
4
1
3
0
1232234234
0
0
0
1
One line per interviewed customer