redistribute_weights function

Redistribute weight from one group to another

Redistributes weight from one group to another: for example, from non-respondents to respondents. Redistribution is conducted for the full-sample weights as well as each set of replicate weights. This can be done separately for each combination of a set of grouping variables, for example to implement a nonresponse weighting class adjustment.

redistribute_weights(design, reduce_if, increase_if, by)

Arguments

• design: A survey design object, created with either the survey or srvyr packages.
• reduce_if: An expression indicating which cases should have their weights set to zero. Must evaluate to a logical vector with only values of TRUE or FALSE.
• increase_if: An expression indicating which cases should have their weights increased. Must evaluate to a logical vector with only values of TRUE or FALSE.
• by: (Optional) A character vector with the names of variables used to group the redistribution of weights. For example, if the data include variables named "stratum" and "wt_class", one could specify by = c("stratum", "wt_class").

Returns

The survey design object, but with updated full-sample weights and updated replicate weights. The resulting survey design object always has its value of combined.weights set to TRUE.

Examples

# Load example data
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)
rep_design <- as.svrepdesign(dclus1)

# Adjust weights for cases with unknown eligibility
ue_adjusted_design <- redistribute_weights(
    design = 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")
)

References

See Chapter 2 of Heeringa, West, and Berglund (2017) or Chapter 13 of Valliant, Dever, and Kreuter (2018) for an overview of nonresponse adjustment methods based on redistributing weights.

• Heeringa, S., West, B., Berglund, P. (2017). Applied Survey Data Analysis, 2nd edition. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. "Applied Survey Data Analysis, 2nd edition." Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

• Valliant, R., Dever, J., Kreuter, F. (2018). "Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples, 2nd edition." New York: Springer.