Congressional Record for 104th-110th Congresses: Text and Phrase Counts (ICPSR 33501)

Version Date: Dec 1, 2015

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

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR33501.v4

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Summary

Please note that inconsistencies have been identified in some of the data accompanying this collection related to the variable "speechID." Potential data users are advised that the files in DS15-DS20 may be compromised and should be used with caution.

This qualitative data collection contains original and processed text from the United States Congressional Record for the 104th-110th 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.

Citation

Gentzkow, Matthew, and Shapiro, Jesse. Congressional Record for 104th-110th Congresses: Text and Phrase Counts. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2015-12-01. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR33501.v4

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Funding

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

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

United States

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1995 -- 2008

Date of Collection

2007-06 -- 2011-11

Data Collection Notes

  1. This collection has not been processed by ICPSR and is being released in the original ASCII format for convenience of use; no value labels are present in the data.

  2. Please see the ICPSR User Guide for information about what each part of the data collection contains.

  3. Please note that the files for this data collection are extremely large. Users should exercise discretion when downloading files.

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Study Design

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

Sample

The data are not a sample, as this collection is an aggregation of data on Congressional speech.

Universe

Full-text of the published Congressional Record for both chambers of the 104th-110th Congresses of the United States.

Unit(s) of Observation

parsed bigrams of congressional records, speaker and speech metadata

Data Source

Congressional Records obtained from the Government Printing Office

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

2012-12-14

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Gentzkow, Matthew, and Jesse Shapiro. Congressional Record for 104th-110th Congresses: Text and Phrase Counts. ICPSR33501-v4. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2015-12-01. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR33501.v4

2015-12-01 This collection is being updated to comply with new ICPSR file-naming conventions. No other changes have been made to the collection.

2015-10-23 This collection is being updated to include data for the 110th Congress, spanning the years 2007 and 2008.

2013-07-08 The User Guide was updated.

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