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There is an equation for number of occupants as a function of the number of bedrooms.

You can modify this equation in the _processOccupants() method in \modeling\sim.py:

occ.num_occupants = 0.63 + 0.92 * unit.num_bedrooms for single family or

occ.num_occupants = 0.87 + 0.59 * unit.num_bedrooms for multifamily