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Prepare targets for weighting

prepare_targets.Rd

Prepares survey or PUMS targets for weighting, expanding target configs and handling day-of-week suffixes. Use as the main entry for target tabulation.

Usage

prepare_targets(
  households = NULL,
  persons = NULL,
  codebook,
  settings,
  target_names = NULL
)

Arguments

households

data.table. Household data.

persons

data.table. Person data.

codebook

data.table. Codebook data.

settings

list. Settings object with target configs.

target_names

character vector, optional. Target names to prepare.

Value

data.table. Prepared targets, seed, or control totals.

Details

  • Expands target configs for day-of-week and crosstab targets.

  • Tabulates targets by method specified in settings.

  • Handles survey and PUMS input fields.

  • Skips targets with missing input or 'skip' config.

  • Returns data.table of targets, seed, or control totals.

  • Assumes input tables are data.table and settings are complete.

Settings

Uses all target configs and weight_dow_groups.

See also

prep_target_cross, prep_targets_methods

Other target preparation: get_target_methods(), prep_target_adults(), prep_target_age(), prep_target_commutemode(), prep_target_cross(), prep_target_edulevel(), prep_target_employment(), prep_target_ethnicity(), prep_target_gender(), prep_target_h_size(), prep_target_income(), prep_target_kids(), prep_target_race(), prep_target_univstudent(), prep_target_vehicles(), prep_target_workers(), prep_transit_target(), run_tabulate_method()

Examples

## Not run:
prepare_targets(households, persons, codebook, settings)
#> Error: object 'households' not found