gender_ipums_usa

A character string of a first name. Case insensitive.

name

This argument can be either a single year, a range of years in
the form <code>c(1880, 1900)</code>. If no value is specified, then the names
will be looked up for the period 1789 to 1930. If a year or range of years
is specified, then the names will be lo

years

A boolean value, which determines whether or not to return
the proportion of male and female uses of names in addition to determining
the gender of names.

certainty

This internal function implements the <code>method = "ipums"</code> option of
<code><a href="/link/gender?package=gender&version=0.4.3" rd-options="" data-mini-rdoc="gender::gender">gender</a></code>. See that function for documentation.

Encodes gender based on names and dates of birth, using either the
    Social Security Administration's data set of first names by year of birth
    or the Census Bureau data from 1789 to 1940, both from the United States of
    America. By using these data sets instead of lists of male and female names,
    this package is able to more accurately guess the gender of a name, and it
    is able to report the probability that a name was male or female.

gender_ipums_usa: Find the gender of first names using U.S. Census data

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