This repository includes the source code for the collection, cleaning and computational study of the Greek Parliament Proceedings Dataset. Detailed instructions and descriptions of all the scripts are included in the supplementary material.
The dataset includes 1,280,918 speeches (rows) of Greek parliament members with a total volume of 2.12 GB, that were exported from 5,355 parliamentary sitting record files. They extend chronologically from early July 1989 up to late July 2020. The dataset consists of a .csv file and includes the following columns of data:
- member_name: the official name of the parliament member who talked during a sitting.
- sitting_date: the date that the sitting took place.
- parliamentary_period: the name and/or number of the parliamentary period that the speech took place in. A parliamentary period includes multiple parliamentary sessions.
- parliamentary_session: the name and/or number of the parliamentary session that the speech took place in. A parliamentary session includes multiple parliamentary sittings.
- parliamentary_sitting: the name and/or number of the parliamentary sitting that the speech took place in.
- political_party: the political party that the speaker belonged to the moment of their speech.
- government: the government in force when the speech took place.
- member_region: the electoral district the speaker belonged to.
- roles: information about the parliamentary roles and/or government position of the speaker the moment of their speech.
- member_gender: the sex of the speaker
- speech: the speech that the member made during the parliamentary sitting