Metadata record for Database of [United States] Congressional Historical Statistics, 1789-1989 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License . 2013-05-21 Database of [United States] Congressional Historical Statistics, 1789-1989 3371 10.3886/ICPSR03371.v2 Swift, Elaine K. Brookshire, Robert G. Canon, David T. Fink, Evelyn C. Hibbing, John R. Humes, Brian D. Malbin, Michael J. Martis, Kenneth C. National Science Foundation National Science Foundation National Science Foundation National Science Foundation National Science Foundation National Science Foundation National Science Foundation National Science Foundation National Science Foundation SES 93-10057 SES 9309877 SES 9223337 SBR-93-18537 SES 9308683 SES 9319225 SES-9109335 SBR 9496324 SBR-9310112 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research 2004-12-08 2009-02-03 2009-02-03 Parts 10 (Committee Table) and 11 (Roll Call Table) have been added to this release. In addition, all parts of this study now have SAS, SPSS, and Stata setup and ready-to-go files. 2006-01-18 2006-01-18 File CB3371.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads. Swift, Elaine K., Robert G. Brookshire, David T. Canon, Evelyn C. Fink, John R. Hibbing, Brian D. Humes, Michael J. Malbin, and Kenneth C. Martis. Database of [United States] Congressional Historical Statistics, 1789-1989. ICPSR03371-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-02-03. doi:10.3886/ICPSR03371.v2 biographical data career history congressional candidates congressional districts congressional elections (US House) congressional elections (US Senate) congressional voting historical data legislative bodies legislators political history political leaders politicians public officials roll call data roll call voting records United States Congress United States House of Representatives United States Senate vote count voting behavior ICPSR.XIII.A.1 ICPSR.XIII.B This data release is composed of tables from a database of United States Congressional statistics spanning the time period 1789 through 1989. The sources of the data were studies in the ICPSR collection and other historical texts and studies. There are eleven data files in total, including two additional tables that have been added since the first release. Some files contain records for additional Congresses. The rows in the various files describe different entities. For example, in the Votes Table file, each row contains a record of a vote by a particular member on a particular roll call vote. The Member Table file contains a record for each member of Congress, while the Serves Table file contains a record for each member for every Congress in which he or she served. See the descriptions of each file in the codebook for details about its contents. The data from the various files can be combined by matching the fields that they have in common. Cross-file searches should be conducted using the Member_ID field. However, not every file has the Member_ID field. In those cases, an alternative common field should be used. 1789 1989 2001-03 United States census/enumeration data roll call voting data survey data record abstracts United States Congressional Record

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