Parliamentary Speeches
Description
The Parliamentary Speeches dataset contains information on all oral interventions that occurred during a plenary session since the I legislature. Due to problems with the raw data as presented by the parliament’s website, the VIII legislature is not yet available, and the speeches that occurred before that might be prone to small mistakes.
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Reference
De Giorgi, Elisabetta and Dias, António Luís (2019) Portuguese Observatory on Parliamentary Dynamics database (POPaD): Information on legislative process, scrutiny activity and speeches in the Portuguese parliament. (Development version) [Datafile and Codebook]. Retrieved from https://popad.org
Variables
| Name | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
Legislature |
Number of Legislature during which the plenary session occurred. | Numeric |
Session |
Number of Session during which the plenary session occurred. | Numeric |
Number |
Number of the plenary session. | Numeric |
Date |
Date of the plenary session in a Year-Month-Day format. | Date String |
Orator |
Name of the orator. Note that the name might be blank in the case that it is referred to its position only, as in the case of the President of the Legislative Assembly or the Prime-minister. | String |
Entity |
Name of the position of the orator, if not a MP. | String |
Party |
If the orator is a MP, the Political Party Group to which they belong to. | String |
Speech |
Written text of the intervention. | String |
WordCount |
Number of words on the intervention. | Numeric |
Procedural |
Dummy variable that indicates if the orator is a presiding officer of the session, as the President of the Table of the Assembly or a Secretary. | Dummy |
