PolData

A dataset with political datasets

Description

A collection of political datasets. The datasets are listed below within specific categories: cabinets, citizens, constitutions, political institutions, parties and politicians, democracy, economics, elections, international relations, media, policy, political elites, political speeches and debates. All datasets are listed in the datasets in the repository (.xlsx, .csv) with detailed information on the topics, coverage and availability of the respective datasets.

Variables in the dataset

name = Name of dataset
category = Dataset category (cabinets, citizens etc.)
link = URL to dataset
topics = Specific topics of interest in the dataset
country = Name of country (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2)
region_africa = Country in African Group (United Nations Regional Groups of Member States)
region_asia = Country in Asia-Pacific Group (United Nations Regional Groups of Member States)
region_easteurope = Country in Eastern European Group (United Nations Regional Groups of Member States)
region_latinamerica = Country in Latin American and Caribbean Group (United Nations Regional Groups of Member States)
region_westeurope = Country in Western European and Others Group (United Nations Regional Groups of Member States)
year_start = Time coverage, year start
year_end = Time coverage, year end
availability = Availability of dataset
registration = Requirements for data access
license= License (identifiers from SPDX License List)
file_codebook = URL to documentation (usually .pdf)
file_csv = URL to dataset (.csv)
file_dta = URL to dataset (.dta)
file_sav = URL to dataset (.sav)
file_excel = URL to dataset (Excel)
file_r = URL to dataset (.Rdata)
file_zip = URL to compressed dataset (.zip)
variable_country = Name of country string variable
variable_year = Name of year variable
variable_cow = Name of Correlates of War numeric identifier variable
doi_article = DOI for related publication
doi_dataset = DOI for dataset
revised = Date for last revision in PolData (ISO 8601, YYYYMMDD)