Public repository for public data of Rajya Sabha members
this repository contains following files:
- TCPD_RSD_1.30_1952_20-07-2022_release.csv : List of members of Rajya Sabha (Indian Parliament's upper-house) from 1952 to 20th July 2022 with their public information. This information was taken earlier from only the Rajya Sabha official website. From version 1.30 onwards the Rajya Sabha Who's Who has also been added as a source.
- TCPD_RSD_v1.30_14-09-2022 : documentation and detailed description of variables in the dataset. Currently at version 1.30
The Rajya Sabha Dataset is a corpus of data concerning all members of the Rajya Sabha of India from March 1952 - 20 July 2022. The data comes from the Rajya Sabha website (https://rajyasabha.nic.in/) and Rajya Sabha Who's Who. This official website contains information about members’ political history, positions held, sociological information etc. The Who's Who is a periodic publication released by the Upper House detailing information on its constituent members.
TCPD has first extracted this information and then cleaned and structured it to fit into a tabular format.
The "Type" variable in the dataset describes the status of membership as on 20-July-2022, either as current or former.