NAMES: First Names and Gender (U.S.)

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Description

A dataset containing 1990 U.S. census data on first names.

Usage

data(NAMES)

Format

A data frame with 5493 rows and 7 variables

Details

• name. A first name.

• per.freq. Frequency in percent of the name by gender.

• cum.freq. Cumulative frequency in percent of the name by gender.

• rank. Rank of the name by gender.

• gender. Gender of the combined male/female list (M/F).

• gender2. Gender of the combined male/female list with "B" in place of overlapping (M/F) names.

• pred.sex. Predicted gender of the names with B's in gender2 replaced with the gender that had a higher per.freq.

References

http://www.census.gov

qdapDictionaries documentation built on May 2, 2019, 9:41 a.m.