README.md

In donboyd5/geoWeight: Distribute Microdata Record Weights Across Different Geographies

geoWeight

geoWeight allows users to split record weights of microdata files across different geographic areas in a manner that hits or comes close to target values for those areas.

The motivation for this package was the desire to distribute the individual record weights for an anonymized national sample of tax returns across the 50 states in a manner that is consistent with published totals for the states. A portion of each record weight is shared to each of the 50 states, so that the sum of the 50 states adds to the total record weight, for each record. The methods and functions used by this package can be used for other purposes.

The primary approach in this package does not estimate the

The primary approach is a variant of the method described in:

Khitatrakun, Surachai, Gordon B T Mermin, and Norton Francis. “Incorporating State Analysis into the Tax Policy Center’s Microsimulation Model: Documentation and Methodology.” Working Paper, March 2016.

Installation

Install the development version of geoWeight with:

devtools::install_github("donboyd5/geoWeight")

Example

This is a basic example which shows you how to solve a common problem:

# library(geoWeight)
## basic example code

What is special about using README.Rmd instead of just README.md? You can include R chunks like so:

summary(cars)
#>      speed           dist       
#>  Min.   : 4.0   Min.   :  2.00  
#>  1st Qu.:12.0   1st Qu.: 26.00  
#>  Median :15.0   Median : 36.00  
#>  Mean   :15.4   Mean   : 42.98  
#>  3rd Qu.:19.0   3rd Qu.: 56.00  
#>  Max.   :25.0   Max.   :120.00

You’ll still need to render README.Rmd regularly, to keep README.md up-to-date.

You can also embed plots, for example:

In that case, don’t forget to commit and push the resulting figure files, so they display on GitHub!

donboyd5/geoWeight documentation built on July 5, 2020, 8:55 p.m.