castaway_details: Castaway details

In survivoR: Data from all Seasons of Survivor (US) TV Series in Tidy Format

Castaway details

Description

A dataset containing details on the castaways for each season

Usage

castaway_details

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

castaway_id

ID of the castaway (primary key). Consistent across seasons and name changes e.g. Amber Brkich / Amber Mariano. The first two letters reference the country of the version played e.g. US, AU (TBA).

full_name

Full name of the castaway

full_name_detailed

A detailed version of full_name for plotting e.g. 'Boston' Rob Mariano

castaway

Short name of the castaway. Name typically used during the season. Sometimes there are multiple people with the same name e.g. Rob C and Rob M in Survivor All-Stars. This field takes the most verbose name used

last_name

Last name

date_of_birth

Date of birth

date_of_death

Date of death

gender

Gender of castaway

african

TRUE if African-American or African-Canadian as per https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page

asian

TRUE if Asian-American or Asian-Canadian as per https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page

latin_american

TRUE if Latin-American as per https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page

native_american

TRUE if Native-American as per https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page

bipoc

Black, Indigenous, or Person of Colour

lgbt

LGBTQIA+ status as listed on the survivor wiki.

personality_type

The Myer-Briggs personality type of the castaway

occupation

Occupation

collar

White Collar, Blue Collar, No Collar, or Unknown. WARNING: this is experimental. The classification has been made using a model and results may be inconsistent.

three_words

Answer to the question "three words to describe you?"

hobbies

Answer to the question "what are you favourite hobbies?"

pet_peeves

Answer to the question "what are your pet peeves?"

race

Race (if known)

ethnicity

Ethnicity (if known)

Details

Race and ethnicity data is included if known and can point to a source, rather than making an assumption about an individual.

poc has been deprecated and replaced with bipoc which is now logical and only for the US. bipoc is TRUE if any of african, asian, latin_american, or native_american is TRUE.

Source

https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page, https://www.personality-database.com/

Examples

library(dplyr)
castaway_details |>
  count(gender)

survivoR documentation built on Sept. 9, 2025, 5:45 p.m.