legislatoR (version 1.1.0)

get_core: Fetch 'Core' table

Description

Fetches sociodemographic data of legislators for the specified legislature. Requires a working Internet connection.

Usage

get_core(legislature)

Value

A data frame with columns as specified above.

Format

Data frame with columns (varies by legislature):

• country: ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 three-letter country code (of class ‘character’).

• pageid: Wikipedia page ID identifying a legislator's Wikipedia biography (of class ‘integer’ or ‘character’).

• wikidataid: Wikidata ID identifying a legislator's Wikidata entry (of class ‘character’).

• wikititle: A legislator's undirected Wikipedia title (of class ‘character’).

• name: A legislator's full name (of class ‘character’).

• sex: A legislator's sex (of class ‘character’).

• ethnicity: A legislator's ethnicity (of class ‘character’).

• religion: A legislator's religious denomination (of class ‘character’).

• birth: A legislator's date of birth (of class ‘POSIXct’).

• death: A legislator's date of death (of class ‘POSIXct’).

• birthplace: Comma separated latitude and longitude of a legislator's place of birth (of class ‘character’).

• deathplace: Comma separated latitude and longitude of a legislator's place of death (of class ‘character’).

Arguments

legislature

A character string specifying the three-letter country code of the legislature for which data shall be fetched. Currently one of ‘aut’, ‘can’, ‘cze’, ‘esp’, ‘fra’, ‘deu’, ‘irl’, ‘sco’, ‘gbr’, ‘usa_house’, or ‘usa_senate’.

Examples

# Get entire 'Core' table for the German Bundestag
deu_core <- get_core(legislature = "deu")
tibble::glimpse(deu_core)

# Get 'Core' table for 16th session of the German Bundestag
deu_core_subset <- dplyr::semi_join(x = deu_core,
                                    y = dplyr::filter(get_political(legislature = "deu"),
                                                      session == 16),
                                    by = "pageid")
tibble::glimpse(deu_core_subset)