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qdap (version 0.2.5)

NAMES_LIST: First Names and Predictive Gender (U.S.) List

Description

A list version of the link[qdap]{NAMES_SEX}) dataset broken down by first letter.

Arguments

format

A list with 26 elements

Details

Alphabetical list of dataframes with the following variables:
  • name. A first name.
  • 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 ingender2repalced with the gender that had a higherper.freq.

References

http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/data/1990surnames/names_files.html