Measure group alignment in survey data — measure

Computes plurality responses, respondent alignment, and cumulative plurality statistics by group for the specified question columns.

Usage

measure_alignment(
  data,
  wave_col = NULL,
  ques_cols = NULL,
  ques_stem = NULL,
  group_col = NULL,
  weight_col = NULL,
  id_col = NULL,
  verbose = TRUE,
  treat_na = c("exclude", "unaligned")
)

Arguments

data: Data frame containing responses.
wave_col: Column with wave identifiers (e.g., year).
ques_cols: Optional character vector of question columns to include.
ques_stem: Optional vector of substrings/regex used to match columns.
group_col: Grouping variable or named list for labeling.
weight_col: Optional weight column name.
id_col: Optional respondent id column name.
verbose: Logical; if TRUE (default) prints progress messages.
treat_na: How to handle NA responses in alignment.

Value

List of analysis tables and metadata attributes.