svydesign.RdSpecify a complex survey design.
svydesign(ids, probs=NULL, strata = NULL, variables = NULL, fpc=NULL,
data = NULL, nest = FALSE, check.strata = !nest, weights=NULL,pps=FALSE,...)
# S3 method for default
svydesign(ids, probs=NULL, strata = NULL, variables = NULL,
fpc=NULL,data = NULL, nest = FALSE, check.strata = !nest, weights=NULL,
pps=FALSE,calibrate.formula=NULL,variance=c("HT","YG"),...)
# S3 method for imputationList
svydesign(ids, probs = NULL, strata = NULL, variables = NULL,
fpc = NULL, data, nest = FALSE, check.strata = !nest, weights = NULL, pps=FALSE,
calibrate.formula=NULL,...)
# S3 method for character
svydesign(ids, probs = NULL, strata = NULL, variables = NULL,
fpc = NULL, data, nest = FALSE, check.strata = !nest, weights = NULL, pps=FALSE,
calibrate.formula=NULL,dbtype = "SQLite", dbname, ...)Formula or data frame specifying cluster ids from largest
level to smallest level, ~0 or ~1 is a formula for no clusters.
Formula or data frame specifying cluster sampling probabilities
Formula or vector specifying strata, use NULL for no strata
Formula or data frame specifying the variables
measured in the survey. If NULL, the data argument is
used.
Finite population correction: see Details below
Formula or vector specifying sampling weights as an
alternative to prob
Data frame to look up variables in the formula
arguments, or database table name, or imputationList object, see below
If TRUE, relabel cluster ids to enforce nesting
within strata
If TRUE, check that clusters are nested in
strata
.
"brewer" to use Brewer's approximation for PPS
sampling without replacement. "overton" to use
Overton's approximation. An object of class HR to use the Hartley-Rao approximation. An
object of class ppsmat to use the Horvitz-Thompson
estimator.
model formula specifying how the weights are *already* calibrated (raked, post-stratified).
name of database driver to pass to dbDriver
name of database (eg file name for SQLite)
For pps without replacement, use variance="YG" for the Yates-Grundy estimator instead of the Horvitz-Thompson estimator
for future expansion
The svydesign object combines a data frame and all the survey
design information needed to analyse it. These objects are used by
the survey modelling and summary functions. The
id argument is always required, the strata,
fpc, weights and probs arguments are
optional. If these variables are specified they must not have any
missing values.
By default, svydesign assumes that all PSUs, even those in
different strata, have a unique value of the id
variable. This allows some data errors to be detected. If your PSUs
reuse the same identifiers across strata then set nest=TRUE.
The finite population correction (fpc) is used to reduce the variance when a substantial fraction of the total population of interest has been sampled. It may not be appropriate if the target of inference is the process generating the data rather than the statistics of a particular finite population.
The finite population correction can be specified either as the total population size in each stratum or as the fraction of the total population that has been sampled. In either case the relevant population size is the sampling units. That is, sampling 100 units from a population stratum of size 500 can be specified as 500 or as 100/500=0.2. The exception is for PPS sampling without replacement, where the sampling probability (which will be different for each PSU) must be used.
If population sizes are specified but not sampling probabilities or weights, the sampling probabilities will be computed from the population sizes assuming simple random sampling within strata.
For multistage sampling the id argument should specify a
formula with the cluster identifiers at each stage. If subsequent
stages are stratified strata should also be specified as a
formula with stratum identifiers at each stage. The population size
for each level of sampling should also be specified in fpc.
If fpc is not specified then sampling is assumed to be with
replacement at the top level and only the first stage of cluster is
used in computing variances. If fpc is specified but for fewer
stages than id, sampling is assumed to be complete for
subsequent stages. The variance calculations for
multistage sampling assume simple or stratified random sampling
within clusters at each stage except possibly the last.
For PPS sampling without replacement it is necessary to specify the
probabilities for each stage of sampling using the fpc
arguments, and an overall weight argument should not be
given. At the moment, multistage or stratified PPS sampling without
replacement is supported only with pps="brewer", or by
giving the full joint probability matrix using
ppsmat. [Cluster sampling is supported by all
methods, but not subsampling within clusters].
The dim, "[", "[<-" and na.action methods for
survey.design objects operate on the dataframe specified by
variables and ensure that the design information is properly
updated to correspond to the new data frame. With the "[<-"
method the new value can be a survey.design object instead of a
data frame, but only the data frame is used. See also
subset.survey.design for a simple way to select
subpopulations.
The model.frame method extracts the observed data.
If the strata with only one PSU are not self-representing (or they are,
but svydesign cannot tell based on fpc) then the handling
of these strata for variance computation is determined by
options("survey.lonely.psu"). See svyCprod for
details.
data may be a character string giving the name of a table or view
in a relational database that can be accessed through the DBI
interfaces. For DBI interfaces dbtype should be the name of the database
driver and dbname should be the name by which the driver identifies
the specific database (eg file name for SQLite).
The appropriate database interface package must already be loaded (eg
RSQLite for SQLite). The survey design
object will contain only the design meta-data, and actual variables will
be loaded from the database as needed. Use
close to close the database connection and
open to reopen the connection, eg, after
loading a saved object.
The database interface does not attempt to modify the underlying database and so can be used with read-only permissions on the database.
If data is an imputationList object (from the "mitools"
package), svydesign will return a svyimputationList object
containing a set of designs. Use with.svyimputationList to
do analyses on these designs and MIcombine to combine the results.
An object of class survey.design.
as.svrepdesign for converting to replicate weight designs,
subset.survey.design for domain estimates,
update.survey.design to add variables.
mitools package for using multiple imputations
svyrecvar and svyCprod for details of
variance estimation
election for examples of PPS sampling without replacement.
http://faculty.washington.edu/tlumley/survey/ for examples of database-backed objects.
data(api)
# stratified sample
dstrat<-svydesign(id=~1,strata=~stype, weights=~pw, data=apistrat, fpc=~fpc)
# one-stage cluster sample
dclus1<-svydesign(id=~dnum, weights=~pw, data=apiclus1, fpc=~fpc)
# two-stage cluster sample: weights computed from population sizes.
dclus2<-svydesign(id=~dnum+snum, fpc=~fpc1+fpc2, data=apiclus2)
## multistage sampling has no effect when fpc is not given, so
## these are equivalent.
dclus2wr<-svydesign(id=~dnum+snum, weights=weights(dclus2), data=apiclus2)
dclus2wr2<-svydesign(id=~dnum, weights=weights(dclus2), data=apiclus2)
## syntax for stratified cluster sample
##(though the data weren't really sampled this way)
svydesign(id=~dnum, strata=~stype, weights=~pw, data=apistrat,
nest=TRUE)
#> Stratified 1 - level Cluster Sampling design (with replacement)
#> With (162) clusters.
#> svydesign(id = ~dnum, strata = ~stype, weights = ~pw, data = apistrat,
#> nest = TRUE)
## PPS sampling without replacement
data(election)
dpps<- svydesign(id=~1, fpc=~p, data=election_pps, pps="brewer")
##database example: requires RSQLite
if (FALSE) {
library(RSQLite)
dbclus1<-svydesign(id=~dnum, weights=~pw, fpc=~fpc,
data="apiclus1",dbtype="SQLite", dbname=system.file("api.db",package="survey"))
}
## pre-calibrated weights
cdclus1<-svydesign(id=~dnum, weights=~pw, data=apiclus1, fpc=~fpc,
calibration.formula=~1)