This package contains three datasets provided by the USA Social Security Administration:
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babynames: For each year from 1880 to 2015, the number of children of each sex given each name. All names with more than 5 uses are given. (Source: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html) -
applicants: The number of applicants for social security numbers (SSN) for each year for each sex. (Source: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/numberUSbirths.html) -
lifetables: Cohort life tables data (Source: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/as120/LifeTables_Body.html)
It also includes the following data set from the US Census:
births: Number of live births by year, up to 2014. (Source: http://www.census.gov/statab/hist/02HS0013.xls and http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr62/nvsr62_09.pdf)
Install it from github with:
if(!require(devtools)) {
install.packages(devtools)
}
devtools::install_github("wharton-data-analytics/babynames")
Then, you can do:
baby_names <- babynames::babynames
head(baby_names)
Alternatively, if you look under data-raw/csv in this repository, you will find the raw csv files for this dataset, if you want to analyze this data with a different environment.
Babynames csv: https://cdn.rawgit.com/wharton-data-analytics/babynames/3192856738dee4a91bfc7d320355daa5ae428c17/data-raw/csv/babynames.csv