sampHH: Sample households from given microdata.

In simPop: Simulation of Complex Synthetic Data Information

Sample households from given microdata.

Description

The function samples households from microdata containing personal and household information.

Usage

sampHH(pop, sizefactor = 1, hid = "hid", strata = "region", hsize = NULL)

Arguments

pop	data frame containing households and persons
sizefactor	factor of how many times the initial population should be resampled
hid	string specifying the name of the household-id variable in the data.
strata	can be used to sample within strata.
hsize	string specifying the name of the household size variable in the data.

Details

households are drawn from the data and new ID's are generated for the new households.

Value

the data frame of new households.

Author(s)

Bernhard Meindl, Matthias Templ and Johannes Gussenbauer

References

M. Templ, B. Meindl, A. Kowarik, A. Alfons, O. Dupriez (2017) Simulation of Synthetic Populations for Survey Data Considering Auxiliary Information. Journal of Statistical Survey, 79 (10), 1–38. doi: 10.18637/jss.v079.i10

Examples

data(eusilcP)
pop <- eusilcP
colnames(pop)[3] <- "hhsize"

system.time(x1 <- sampHH(pop, strata="region", hsize="hhsize"))
dim(x1)
## Not run: 
## approx. 10 second computation time ...
system.time(x1 <- sampHH(pop, sizefactor=4, strata="region", hsize="hhsize"))
dim(x1)
system.time(x2 <- sampHH(pop, strata=NULL, hsize="hhsize"))

pop <- pop[,-which(colnames(pop)=="hhsize")]
system.time(y1 <- sampHH(pop, strata="region", hsize=NULL))
system.time(y2 <- sampHH(pop, strata=NULL, hsize=NULL))

## End(Not run)

simPop documentation built on Nov. 10, 2022, 5:43 p.m.