Query and construction of multi‐attribute social accounts
Arie P. Schinnar · Journal of Mathematical Sociology · 1977
This paper surveys methods for query of systems of social accounts that are constructed from collections of intersecting data sets. Such query methods are used to ascertain, e.g., the number of people who possess certain attribute characteristics not explicitly provided by an original account or survey. Three approaches to the query problem are considered: (1) a generalized inverse solution suggested by Ijiri (1965); (2) a row reduced echelon matrix formulation devised by Hellerman and Cavallo (1977); and (3) a Boolean matrix operation introduced by Homer (1974). The latter two methods are extended to provide a general approach for using existing multi‐attribute information for the construction of new systems of social accounts.