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Given a set of household features, and a multi-resolution partition that represents administrative divisions, our framework reports a set\n            <jats:italic>C<\/jats:italic>\n            <jats:sup>*<\/jats:sup>\n            of largest subdivisions that have a common predictive model for population-income prediction. We formalize the problem of finding\n            <jats:italic>C<\/jats:italic>\n            <jats:sup>*<\/jats:sup>\n            and propose an algorithm that can find\n            <jats:italic>C<\/jats:italic>\n            <jats:sup>*<\/jats:sup>\n            correctly. We use both simulation datasets as well as a real-world dataset of Thailand\u2019s population household information to demonstrate our framework performance and application. The results show that our framework performance is better than the baseline methods. Moreover, we demonstrate that the results of our method can be used to find indicators of income prediction for many areas in Thailand. By adjusting these indicator values via policies, we expect people in these areas to gain more incomes. Hence, the policy makers will be able to make policies by using these indicators in our results as a guideline to solve low-income issues. Our framework can be used to support policy makers in making policies regarding any other dependent variable beyond income in order to combat poverty and other issues. We provide the R package, MRReg, which is the implementation of our framework in the R language. 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