tax {samplingbook}

Hypothetical Tax Refund Data Frame

Description

Simulated tax refund data frame including the estimated and actual refund value

Usage

data(tax)

Format

A data frame with 9083 observations on the following 5 variables.

id

a numeric vector indicating the tax payer

estRefund

a numeric vector representing the estimated value of tax refund by the tax payer

actRefund

a numeric vector representing the actual tax refund calculated by the financial authority

diff

difference between estimated and acture tax refund

Class

a factor with levels 1, 2, 3, and 4 indicating the strata

Source

Due to data protection this is a simulated data set reflecting the real data.

References

Kauermann, Goeran/Kuechenhoff, Helmut (2010): Stichproben. Methoden und praktische Umsetzung mit R. Springer.

Examples

data(tax)
summary(tax)

# illustration of stratamean
nh <- as.vector(table(tax$Class))
wh <- nh/sum(nh)
stratamean(y=tax$diff, h=as.vector(tax$Class), wh=wh, eae=TRUE)