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Aggregate Event-Level Data to Person-Level for Matching

Source: R/impact_matching.R
aggregate_to_person_level.Rd

Helper function to aggregate event-level employment data to person-level characteristics for propensity score matching. Handles different aggregation methods for various variable types.

Usage

aggregate_to_person_level(
  data,
  person_id_var,
  variables,
  aggregation_method = "first",
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

data

data.table with event-level data

person_id_var

Character. Name of person identifier column

variables

Character vector. Variables to aggregate

aggregation_method

Character. Aggregation method: "first", "last", "mode", "mean"

verbose

Logical. Print aggregation diagnostics?

Value

List containing aggregated data.table and aggregation report