Create recoded gender column

This function takes a column of gender values and, in a new column, returns the categorized values included in gender_walk.

Usage

clean_gender(x, var, new_var = gender_clean)

Arguments

x

Data.frame containing gender data

var

Original variable containing gender data. Must be specified

new_var

Name of new gender variable. Defaults to gender_clean

Value

A data.frame

Examples

head(test_data) %>% clean_gender(gender) %>% select(gender, gender_clean)
#> The following values are not in the gender walk dictionary and have been assigned a value of NA in the newly created variable:
#> 1
#> 2
#> 
#> # A tibble: 6 × 2
#>   gender gender_clean
#>    <dbl> <chr>       
#> 1      1 NA          
#> 2      2 NA          
#> 3      2 NA          
#> 4      2 NA          
#> 5      2 NA          
#> 6      1 NA