Generate summary table for seed-level controls about populationsim

[mabcal]

If we have multi-level controls (e.g region and PUMA), will it produce summaries at both levels?

[bettinardi]

Yes - it's a simple difference of controls to output at every control level, but it's so useful to have, and saves the user a couple dozen minutes of excel time each run (if I understand the question correctly)

[binnympaul]

Under the original design, PopulationSim produced summary files for all geographic levels at which controls were specified. Seed-level controls were not allowed. The summary files can be used for generating validation chart or other summaries to check control convergence at each controls geographic level.

For the survey weighting application, user typically specifies controls at the seed geography level. Updates were made to PopulationSim to allow controls specification at the seed geography level. However, PopualtionSim still does not produces summaries for controls at seed level geography. Therefore, the existing scripts to produce seed-level controls validation summaries would not run.

There are two possible ways to handle this issue:

1. User can write their own post processing script to produce seed-level summary from PopulationSim outputs and inputs.
2. Add a dummy sub-seed geography which is the copy of the seed-geography. Then specify the seed-level controls at the dummy sub-seed geography. This essentially translates to specifying controls at the seed-geography level but now you can configure the settings.yaml file to produce summary file at the dummy sub-seed geography.

[bstabler]

And, third, we could add summaries for seed-level controls to the software so user's don't need to do either one or two above.