get ego X cell reports — get_ec_reports • siblingsurvival

Produces a dataframe that has a row for each respondent X cell containing respondent's reported deaths and exposure among siblings in the cell.

Usage

get_ec_reports(
  esc.dat,
  ego.id,
  sib.dat,
  sib.frame.indicator,
  cell.vars,
  weights,
  ind.vis.var = NULL,
  discretize.exp = FALSE
)

esc.dat: Dataset with a row for each respondent X sibling X cell, likely produced by get_esc_reports
ego.id: String with the name of the column in esc.dat containing the survey respondent's id
sib.dat: Dataset with a row for each reported sibling, likely produced by TODO
sib.frame.indicator: String with the name of the column in sib.dat containing a 0/1 coded variable indicating whether or not each sib is in the frame population
cell.vars: a vector with Strings containing the names of columns in esc.dat identifying the cells to group reports by (typically age group, sex, time period)
weights: String with the name of the column in esc.dat that has the survey weights
ind.vis.var: String with the name of the column in esc.dat that has the individual visibility for each sibling; defaults to NULL. If NULL, the individual visibilities are calculated
discretize.exp: Boolean for whether or not expsoure should be discretized. Not yet implemented.

A dataframe that has a row for each respondent X cell containing respondent's reported deaths and exposure among siblings in the cell.

  # TODO - add example