gen_lastname: Randomly generate a lastname.

In sdglinkage: Synthetic Data Generation for Linkage Methods Development

Description

gen_lastname randomly sample a lastname from the selected database:

1. country If is 'uk', the function will automatically sample a lastname. from a extracted lastname database. The lastname database was extracted from ONS.

2. If country is 'us', the function will automatically sample a lastname. that based on the race. The us lastname database was extracted from randomNamesData.

Usage

gen_lastname(country = "uk", race = NA)

Arguments

country	A string variable with a default of 'uk'. It is either 'uk' or 'us'.
race	A number or a string of the ethnicity code: 1 American Indian or Native Alaskan, 2 Asian or Pacific Islander, 3 Black (not Hispanic), 4 Hispanic, 5 White (not Hispanic) and 6 Middle-Eastern, Arabic.

Value

A name string.

Examples

gen_lastname(country = "uk")
gen_lastname(country = "us", race = 2)
gen_lastname(country = "us", race = 'Hispanic')

sdglinkage documentation built on April 27, 2020, 5:09 p.m.