R: Test data for Record Linkage

RLdata {RecordLinkage} | R Documentation

## Test data for Record Linkage

### Description

These tables contain artificial personal data for the evaluation of Record Linkage procedures. Some records have been duplicated with randomly generated errors. `RLdata500` contains 50 duplicates, `RLdata10000` 1000 duplicates.

### Usage

    data(RLdata500)
    data(RLdata10000)

### Format

`RLdata500` and `RLdata10000` are character matrices with 500 and 10000 records. Each row represents one record, with the following columns:

fname_c1

  First name, first component

fname_c2

  First name, second component

lname_c1

  Last name, first component

lname_c2

  Last name, second component

by

  Year of birth

bm

  Month of birth

bd

  Day of birth

`identity.RLdata500` and `identity.RLdata10000` are integer vectors representing the true record ids of the two data sets. Two records are duplicates, if and only if their corresponding values in the identity vector agree.

### Author(s)

Andreas Borg

### Source

Generated with the data generation component of Febrl (Freely Extensible Biomedical Record Linkage), version 0.3 (https://sourceforge.net/projects/febrl/). The following data sources were used (all relate to Germany):

http://blog.beliebte-vornamen.de/2009/02/prozentuale-anteile-2008/, a list of the frequencies of the 20 most popular female names in 2008.

http://www.beliebte-vornamen.de/760-alle_jahre.htm, a list of the 100 most popular first names since 1890. The frequencies found in the source above were extrapolated to fit this list.

http://www.ahnenforschung-in-stormarn.de/geneal/nachnamen_100.htm, a list of the 100 most frequent family names with frequencies.

Age distribution as of Dec 31st, 2008, statistics of Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland, taken from the GENESIS database (https://www-genesis.destatis.de/genesis/online/logon).

Web links as of October 2009.

[Package RecordLinkage version 0.4-11.2 Index]