I suppose I was not quite clear enough before. I have svyset
the data, and actually know which strata are singletons,(list
strata psu if psu==1) the question I seem unable to solve is
how to take those singletons, together, and make them into a
new strata.
Combine "neighboring" strata so that you have n=2 in each new
stratum, no more if possible. (Having n=2 will facilitate using BRR
for variance estimation.) If you have an odd number of strata, the
last one will have n=3. There is a chance that the sequential stratum
numbers in your data set imply some geographic sequence If not,
number the strata in some other way so that neighboring strata are
close by. For geographic strata, one way is "serpentine" numbering:
