phonics (version 1.1.0)

statcan: Statistics Canada Name Coding

Description

The modified Statistics Canada name coding procedure

Usage

statcan(word, maxCodeLen = 4)

Arguments

word

string or vector of strings to encode

maxCodeLen

maximum length of the resulting encodings, in characters

Value

the Statistics Canada encoded character vector

Caveats

The statcan algorithm is only defined for inputs over the standard French alphabet.

Details

The variable word is the name to be encoded. The variable maxCodeLen is the limit on how long the returned name code should be. The default is 4.

References

Billy T. Lynch and William L. Arends. "Selection of surname coding procedure for the SRS record linkage system." United States Department of Agriculture, Sample Survey Research Branch, Research Division, Washington, 1977.

See Also

Other phonics: caverphone, cologne, lein, metaphone, mra_encode, nysiis, onca, phonex, rogerroot, soundex

Examples

# NOT RUN {
statcan("William")
statcan(c("Peter", "Peady"))
statcan("Stevenson", maxCodeLen = 8)

# }