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BuSuCo 0.1.0

Initial Release

Core Functions

• Dutch.BSC: Implements the Modified Dutch Business Sample Coordination Algorithm (Smeets & Boonstra, 2018)
• French.BSC: Implements the Modified French Business Sample Coordination Algorithm (Guggemos & Sautory, 2012; Gros, 2015)
• Norwegian.BSC: Implements the Modified Norwegian Business Sample Coordination Algorithm (Zhang, 2009)
• Swiss.BSC: Implements the Modified Swiss Business Sample Coordination Algorithm (Qualité, 2009)

Data Generation

• Gen.Data: Generates synthetic business data with Pareto-distributed variables, allowing for population dynamics (births, deaths, stratum/domain jumpers)

Supporting Functions

• Survey.relevance: Creates an array indicating survey relevance for each element
• Stratify: Creates an array indicating stratum membership of each element
• uneq.sample: Draws samples with unequal probabilities (with/without replacement)
• target.corr.sort: Rearranges data to achieve a targetted correlation between variables
• nearest.neighbour: Finds the nearest neighbour of elements
• random.order: Randomly reorders elements of a dataset
• is.in.interval: Checks whether a number is within a given interval

Features

• Application of four business sample coordination algorithms
• Synthetic business data generation
• Unequal probability sampling
• Reordering data to a given correlation

References

• Gros, E. (2015): Études et Simulations Relatives à la Nouvelle Méthode de Coordination des Échantillons d’Enquêtes Entreprises et Établissements Développé a l’Insee. In: Journées de Méthodologie Statistique de l’Insee, 2015, pp. 1-23.

• Guggemos, C., & Sautory, O. (2012). Sampling Coordination of Business Surveys Conducted by Insee. In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of Establishment Surveys. Montréal, Canada.

• Qualité, L. (2009). Unequal probability sampling and repeated surveys (PhD Thesis). Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

• Smeets, M., & Boonstra, J.H. (2018). Sampling Coordination of Business Surveys at Statistics Netherlands. In: B. Lorenc et al. (Eds.), The Unit Problem and Other Current Topics in Business Survey Methodology (pp. 1-6). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

• Straubinger, J. (2025). Methods to Coordinate Survey Samples in the Context of German Business Statistics (PhD Thesis). Universität Trier, Germany.

• Zhang, L.-C. (2009). Coordination of business surveys. In: European Establishment Statistics Workshop (EESW09). Stockholm, Sweden.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.