Swiss Municipal Data Merger Tool: Open‐source Software for the Compilation of Longitudinal Municipal‐level Data

The Swiss Municipal Data Merger Tool (Swiss MDMT) offers a solution to a frequent data management problem encountered when compiling longitudinal datasets involving Swiss municipalities as the observational units. Due to municipal mergers, the number of municipalities in Switzerland declined from 3,...

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Autores principales: Knechtl, Valentin, Stutzer, Alois
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Research Notes
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9344967/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35937615
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12487
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description The Swiss Municipal Data Merger Tool (Swiss MDMT) offers a solution to a frequent data management problem encountered when compiling longitudinal datasets involving Swiss municipalities as the observational units. Due to municipal mergers, the number of municipalities in Switzerland declined from 3,095 in 1960 to 2,202 in 2020. As a consequence, manually securing the correct spatial reference when merging historical cross‐sectional data is tedious and time‐consuming. To facilitate this operation, the Swiss MDMT considers mutations at the municipal level and maps municipalities of a first point in time to municipalities in a second point in time based on information provided by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office's municipality inventory. The tool is distributed as an open‐source R package and is freely available on CRAN.
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spelling pubmed-93449672022-08-04 Swiss Municipal Data Merger Tool: Open‐source Software for the Compilation of Longitudinal Municipal‐level Data Knechtl, Valentin Stutzer, Alois Schweiz Z Polit Research Notes The Swiss Municipal Data Merger Tool (Swiss MDMT) offers a solution to a frequent data management problem encountered when compiling longitudinal datasets involving Swiss municipalities as the observational units. Due to municipal mergers, the number of municipalities in Switzerland declined from 3,095 in 1960 to 2,202 in 2020. As a consequence, manually securing the correct spatial reference when merging historical cross‐sectional data is tedious and time‐consuming. To facilitate this operation, the Swiss MDMT considers mutations at the municipal level and maps municipalities of a first point in time to municipalities in a second point in time based on information provided by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office's municipality inventory. The tool is distributed as an open‐source R package and is freely available on CRAN. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-10-26 2021-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9344967/ /pubmed/35937615 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12487 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Swiss Political Science Review published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Swiss Political Science Association https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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title_full Swiss Municipal Data Merger Tool: Open‐source Software for the Compilation of Longitudinal Municipal‐level Data
title_fullStr Swiss Municipal Data Merger Tool: Open‐source Software for the Compilation of Longitudinal Municipal‐level Data
title_full_unstemmed Swiss Municipal Data Merger Tool: Open‐source Software for the Compilation of Longitudinal Municipal‐level Data
title_short Swiss Municipal Data Merger Tool: Open‐source Software for the Compilation of Longitudinal Municipal‐level Data
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9344967/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35937615
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12487
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