1990 Census Name Files
1990 Census Name Files: "Name Files
NOTE: No specific individual information is given.
Name Last modified Size

dist.all.last 09-May-95 23:19 2M
dist.female.first 29-Sep-94 12:23 146K
dist.male.first 29-Sep-94 12:23 41K



Each of the three files, (dist.all.last), (dist. male.first), and (dist female.first) contain four items of data. The four items are:
A 'Name'
Frequency in percent
Cumulative Frequency in percent
Rank
In the file (dist.all.last) one entry appears as:
MOORE 0.312 5.312 9In our Search Area sample, MOORE ranks 9th in terms of frequency. 5.312 percent of the sample population is covered by MOORE and the 8 names occurring more frequently than MOORE. The surname, MOORE, is possessed by 0.312 percent of our population sample.
Detailed Methodology
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Variables in Names Files:
name
freq = Frequency in percent
cum.freq = Cumulative Frequency in percent
rank
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First ten entries in dist.all.last
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name freq cum.freq rank
SMITH 1.006 1.006 1
JOHNSON 0.810 1.816 2
WILLIAMS 0.699 2.515 3
JONES 0.621 3.136 4
BROWN 0.621 3.757 5
DAVIS 0.480 4.237 6
MILLER 0.424 4.660 7
WILSON 0.339 5.000 8
MOORE 0.312 5.312 9
TAYLOR 0.311 5.623 10
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First ten entries in dist.female.first
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name freq cum.freq rank
MARY "
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