Congressional Record for 104th-109th Congresses: Text and Phrase Counts (ICPSR 33501)

Principal Investigator(s): Gentzkow, Matthew, University of Chicago, and National Bureau of Economic Research; Shapiro, Jesse, University of Chicago, and National Bureau of Economic Research

Summary: This qualitative data collection contains original and processed text from the United States Congressional Record for the 104th-109th Congresses. The Congressional Record includes text from both chambers, the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. For each Congress the archive includes the original tagged text files, parsed files that separate the text into individual speeches, speaker metadata that can be linked to the parsed files, and counts of two-word phrases (... (more info)

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Gentzkow, Matthew, and Jesse Shapiro. Congressional Record for 104th-109th Congresses: Text and Phrase Counts. ICPSR33501-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2012-12-14. doi:10.3886/ICPSR33501.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR33501.v1

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This survey was funded by:

• National Science Foundation (SES-0617658 and SES-0922342)

Summary:   This qualitative data collection contains original and processed text from the United States Congressional Record for the 104th-109th Congresses. The Congressional Record includes text from both chambers, the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. For each Congress the archive includes the original tagged text files, parsed files that separate the text into individual speeches, speaker metadata that can be linked to the parsed files, and counts of two-word phrases (bigrams) by speaker, party, and date.

Subject Terms:   government, legislative bodies, political speeches, public officials, United States Congress

Smallest Geographic Unit:   United States

Geographic Coverage:   United States

Time Period:  

• 1995--2006

Date of Collection:  

• 2007-06--2011-11

Unit of Observation:   parsed bigrams of congressional records, speaker and speech metadata

Universe:   Full-text of the published Congressional Record for both chambers of the 104th-109th Congresses of the United States.

Data Types:   administrative records data, aggregate data, machine-readable text, program source code

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Study Design:   Please refer to the Original P.I. Documentation in the ICPSR User Guide.

Sample:   Please refer to the Original P.I. Documentation in the ICPSR User Guide for more information about sampling.

Data Source:

Congressional Records obtained from the Government Printing Office

Original ICPSR Release:  2012-12-14

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