selectHouseholdData function

Creates a household level file from a dataset with a household structure.

It removes individual level variables and selects one record per household based on a household ID. The function can also be used for other hierachical structures.

selectHouseholdData(dat, hhId, hhVars)

Arguments

• dat: a data.frame with the full dataset
• hhId: name of the variable with the household (cluster) ID
• hhVars: character vector with names of all household level variables

Returns

a data.frame with only household level variables and one record per household

Note

It is of great importance that users select a variable with containing information on household-ids and weights in hhVars.

Examples

## ori-hid: household-ids; household_weights: sampling weights for households
x_hh <- selectHouseholdData(dat=testdata, hhId="ori_hid",
  hhVars=c("urbrur", "roof",  "walls", "water", "electcon", "household_weights"))

Author(s)

Thijs Benschop and Bernhard Meindl