Session number. The UN holds one session per year; these
started in 1946
importantvote
Whether the vote was classified as important by the
U.S. State Department report "Voting Practices in the United Nations".
These classifications began with session 39
date
Date of the vote, as a Date vector
unres
Resolution code
amend
Whether the vote was on an amendment; coded only until
1985
para
Whether the vote was only on a paragraph and not a resolution;
coded only until 1985
short
Short description
descr
Longer description
Details
The yes, no, and abstain columns that were present in the original
Voeten data were removed (since they can be retrieved from the
un_votes dataset)