Labour type

CLEM.Resources.LabourType

An individual or group of people of given age and gender.

The Labour type identifies an individual (or group of individuals) of a given age and gender available for the simulation. The Labour Type uses the branch Name of the simulation tree allowing you to identify every person available and set up individual based activities.

The following parameters are associated with this resource

The Name of this individual or group is determined by the name of the simulation tree branch supplied (see Managing model components)

Age in years at the start of the simulation

The gender of the individual or group

The number of individuals this Labour type represents.

Locating individuals by name

When you provide more than 1 individual in each Labour cohort, the model will create a number of Labour Types in the background as the population to work with.

As individuals in the labour pool support Attributes, the model will also create an Attribute with the tag or attribute name "Group" and the value set to the Name of the component. This allows you to use the Filter by attribute to select all individuals created from this parent cohort whether a single individual or a group (number of individuals greater than 1). There is currently no way to select individuals from within a group and you would need to split the group across multiple Labour Types in order to provide each with unique names by which to filter because there is no Name property associated with LabourType.

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