Signal Animarium: An Open, Reproducible Pipeline for Synthetic Populations of Italian Cities

Summary

This technical report presents Animarium, an open, reproducible pipeline for generating synthetic populations of eleven Italian municipalities. The target population totals 1,814,317 individuals across 887,937 households. It builds these populations without accessing individual-level microdata, relying solely on published aggregates such as Italy's national statistics institute's census and register tables and census-section-level counts. Only the abstract-level claims were available, so specific validation methods and downstream use cases would require reading the full paper. The approach demonstrates that municipal-scale population models can be built without sensitive personal data.