code_gender: Code gender variable

In antaldaniel/surveyreader: Data cleaning and integration for survey files

Description

Create a gender indicator or dummy from a character vector.

Usage

code_gender(column, female_id = "default", female_value = 1, na_id = "NA",
  return_class = "numeric")

Arguments

column	A column from a survey data frame where gender is recorded.
female_id	A regex identifier for the female values. If omitted, the default value is "default" searches for "woman" or "female" (not case-sensitive).
female_value	What should be the returned value for females (Default: 1 )
na_id	Is there a special character ID for missing variables? (Default: "NA" ) Missing variables will be always treated as missing, however, if you have a special NA identifier, It will also be treated as missing. Every other case will be treated "male"
return_class	Default is "numeric", alternatives "character" or "factor".

Examples

code_gender(column = as.character (c("1-no", "1-nő",
                                     "NA", NA, "0")),
            female_id = "1", female_value = 1,
            na_id = "NA")

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