svrep (version 0.7.0)

stack_replicate_designs: Stack replicate designs, combining data and weights into a single object

Description

Stack replicate designs: combine rows of data, rows of replicate weights, and the respective full-sample weights. This can be useful when comparing estimates before and after a set of adjustments made to the weights. Another more delicate application is when combining sets of replicate weights from multiple years of data for a survey, although this must be done carefully based on guidance from a data provider.

Usage

stack_replicate_designs(..., .id = "Design_Name")

Value

A replicate-weights survey design object, with class svyrep.design and svyrep.stacked. The resulting survey design object always has its value of combined.weights set to TRUE.

Arguments

...

Replicate-weights survey design objects to combine. These can be supplied in one of two ways.

• Option 1 - A series of design objects, for example 'adjusted' = adjusted_design, 'orig' = orig_design.

• Option 2 - A list object containing design objects, for example list('nr' = nr_adjusted_design, 'ue' = ue_adjusted_design).

All objects must have the same specifications for type, rho, mse, scales, and rscales.

.id

A single character value, which becomes the name of a new column of identifiers created in the output data to link each row to the design from which it was taken.
The labels used for the identifiers are taken from named arguments.

Examples

# Load example data, creating a replicate design object
suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(survey))
data(api)

dclus1 <- svydesign(id=~dnum, weights=~pw, data=apiclus1, fpc=~fpc)
dclus1$variables$response_status <- sample(x = c("Respondent", "Nonrespondent",
                                                 "Ineligible", "Unknown eligibility"),
                                           size = nrow(dclus1),
                                           replace = TRUE)
orig_rep_design <- as.svrepdesign(dclus1)

# Adjust weights for cases with unknown eligibility
ue_adjusted_design <- redistribute_weights(
    design = orig_rep_design,
    reduce_if = response_status %in% c("Unknown eligibility"),
    increase_if = !response_status %in% c("Unknown eligibility"),
    by = c("stype")
)

# Adjust weights for nonresponse
nr_adjusted_design <- redistribute_weights(
    design = ue_adjusted_design,
    reduce_if = response_status %in% c("Nonrespondent"),
    increase_if = response_status == "Respondent",
    by = c("stype")
)

# Stack the three designs, using any of the following syntax options
stacked_design <- stack_replicate_designs(orig_rep_design, ue_adjusted_design, nr_adjusted_design,
                                          .id = "which_design")
stacked_design <- stack_replicate_designs('original' = orig_rep_design,
                                          'unknown eligibility adjusted' = ue_adjusted_design,
                                          'nonresponse adjusted' = nr_adjusted_design,
                                          .id = "which_design")
list_of_designs <- list('original' = orig_rep_design,
                        'unknown eligibility adjusted' = ue_adjusted_design,
                        'nonresponse adjusted' = nr_adjusted_design)
stacked_design <- stack_replicate_designs(list_of_designs, .id = "which_design")