When we talk about "entities" we talk about two different realities:
- first, we talk in the abstract about what sort of "things" exist in our model - people, families, tax households - and what sort of relationships exist; for instance, people in a family are either parents or children
- but also, when we start loading data, we talk about concrete people and families; how many people, how many families, how many parents and children are in the first and second family, and so on.
This is one of the strengths of OpenFisca, conceptually. The implementation… left a lot to be desired.
Previously we had this: