surveyPrev: Mapping the Prevalence of Binary Indicators using Survey Data in Small Areas

Provides a pipeline to perform small area estimation and prevalence mapping of binary indicators using health and demographic survey data, described in Dong et al. (2026) <doi:10.1093/jssam/smaf048>, Wakefield et al. (2025) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2110.09576> and Wakefield et al. (2020) <doi:10.1111/insr.12400>.

Version: 2.0.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0), survey
Imports: stats, rlang, rdhs, SUMMER, ggplot2, ggridges, raster, terra, sp, sf, spdep, stringr, dplyr, data.table, matrixStats, scales, expss, labelled, sjlabelled, naniar, jsonlite
Suggests: INLA, knitr, rmarkdown, R.rsp, kableExtra, geodata, patchwork, htmltools, leaflegend, leaflet, plotly, viridisLite
Published: 2026-06-19
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.surveyPrev
Author: Qianyu Dong [cre, aut], Zehang R Li [aut], Yunhan Wu [aut], Jieyi Xu [aut], Andrea Boskovic [aut], Jon Wakefield [aut]
Maintainer: Qianyu Dong <qdong14 at ucsc.edu>
BugReports: https://github.com/richardli/surveyPrev/issues
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
URL: https://github.com/richardli/surveyPrev
NeedsCompilation: no
Additional_repositories: https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/testing/
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: surveyPrev results

Documentation:

Reference manual: surveyPrev.html , surveyPrev.pdf
Vignettes: Create customized indicators (source)
Prevalence mapping using DHS data (source)

Downloads:

Package source: surveyPrev_2.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: surveyPrev_1.0.0.zip, r-release: surveyPrev_2.0.0.zip, r-oldrel: surveyPrev_1.0.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): surveyPrev_2.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): surveyPrev_2.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): surveyPrev_2.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): surveyPrev_2.0.0.tgz
Old sources: surveyPrev archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports: sae4health

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