simPop (version 0.2.9)

sampHH: 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.

Value

• the data frame of new households.

Details

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

Examples

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

system.time(x1 <- sampHH(pop, strata="region", hsize="hhsize"))
dim(x1)
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))