Changes in version 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.