Affords researchers the ability to draw stratified samples from the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs/Department of Defense Identity Repository (VADIR) database according to a variety of population characteristics. The VADIR database contains information for all veterans who were separated from the military after 1980. The central utility of the present package is to integrate data cleaning and formatting for the VADIR database with the stratification methods described by Mahto (2019) < https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=splitstackshape>. Data from VADIR are not provided as part of this package.
R package designed to afford researchers the ability to draw stratified samples from the U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs/Department of Defense Identity Repository (VADIR) database according to a variety of parameters. The VADIR database contains information for all veterans who were separated from the military after 1980. This package is intended to be used in conjunction with VADIR data in order to pull nationally representative samples of veterans for research purposes. Actual VADIR data not supplied with this package. More information about the VADIR database can be found here.
You can install the development version of sampleVADIR from GitHub with:
#install.packages('devtools')
devtools::install_github('tswanson222/sampleVADIR')
Examples along with further details about usage to be provided soon.
Please contact trevorswanson222@gmail.com with any questions.