Structural Content Analysis of 21st Century State of the Union Addresses, [United States], 2000-2018 (ICPSR 37638)
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Peter Zelles, Grinnell College
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37638.v1
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The dataset is designed for a structural content analysis. Each sentence of each 21st century State of the Union Address (SoTU) is treated as a unique case, complete with identifying information (location within speech, location within 21st century SoTUs, number of words in sentence, total number of sentences in its respective SoTU, total minutes of its respective SoTU, President, and date given). All punctuation, hesitations, and commentary are removed. Plain text SoTU Addresses are scraped directly from the American Presidency Project at the University of California Santa Barbara.
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United States Presidents' State of the Union speeches from 2000-2018
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The American Presidency Project at the University of California Santa Barbara.
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State of the Union Data: location within speech, location within 21st century SoTUs, number of words in sentence, category of sentence, total number of sentences in its respective SoTU, total minutes of its respective SoTU, President, and date given
State of the Union Sentence Category Data: year of speech, categorical composition of speech
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2020-04-21
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2020-04-21 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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