For survey design Statistics and census agencies need to extract a random sample, usually of enumeration areas, from the census frame. This is usually stratified by a number of attributes (population, building count, flood risk, etc.) and may or may not have geographic equity constraints (eg X number of urban, Y number of rural EAs; X number of samples from each administrative area) and so on.
Currently, household survey design teams build the sample frame (EAs) in ArcGIS but then have to export to STATA for the selection/sampling process. Each step in this process is doable in ESRI space, but is simply easier in other software. This, I request a tool that enables selection of a user specified number of polygons, with the option to specify a total number of polygons or on the sum of an attribute thereof, and the ability to stratify on the basis of other attributes. Ideally, the user would be able to select the level of representation and see how many samples would be required to meet that. This would directly enable the costing estimation of household surveys, and would also have applications within business analyst. Happy to expand on this more.
