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.