Why Profamy?

Our new method/software for households forecasting, known as ProFamy, has substantial merits as compared to the classic headship-rate method, which is not linked to demographic rates, projects a few household types only without size information, and deals with household “heads” but not other household members

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Call HCF Technical Support Staff:1-919-945-1740; 1-919-618-5078

Households and Consumption Forecasting, Inc

Mission Statement

ProFamy.com aims at developing a user-friendly software and database package for household forecasting and its wide applications. The current main missions of innovative research at ProFamy.com are:

  • Develop the new method/program known as ProFamy into a user-friendly software package tool for household forecasting.
  • Develop the U.S. database of race-age-sex-specific demographic standard schedules for household forecasting at the national, state, and small area levels.
  • Conduct innovative research to strengthen the practical applicability of the ProFamy method.
  • Produce U.S. annual household forecasts for the years 2000 to 2050 by race at the national, state, and sub-state levels, with a focus on elderly households and living arrangement forecasts and long-term care needs assessment.

Introduction of HCF

  • With supports of grants and supports from NIH/NIA SBIR Phase I and Phase II, the Population Division of the U.S. Census Bureau, NICHD, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, and Sabre System Inc., HCF has developed a ProFamy software and online database.
  • The current version of the ProFamy program is 1.11 which is written in Microsoft Visual C++ for the interface (including input and tabulation/graphic output) and in Fortran for computing; it runs under Windows and DOS.
  • The current version of the online database include four components: “Input Database”, “Summary Outputs”, “Detailed Outputs”, and “Figures & Pyramids” for race-specific household projections from 2000 to 2050 for the entire United States, 50 states, and the District of Columbia.
  • We provide both trial version of software and online database demo for users to get familiar with ProFamy program with free of charge.