ropensci/genderdata

Name: genderdata

Owner: rOpenSci

Description: A data package for R containing historical datasets about gender

Created: 2015-03-02 19:47:19.0

Updated: 2017-10-28 05:59:06.0

Pushed: 2017-02-17 13:37:08.0

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README

genderdata

This package contains several datasets of use for historians and social scientists studying gender. These data sets were compiled in this package for use with the gender package for predicting gender from first names.

The raw data sets used in this package are available here:

• Mark Kantrowitz's name corpus
• Social Security Administration's baby names by year and state
• Social Security Administration's baby names by year
• IPUMS Census data
• North Atlantic Population Project

See also Hadley Wickham's babynames package.

Install

This package can be installed from the rOpenSci package repository:

all.packages("genderdata", repos = "http://packages.ropensci.org")