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A dataset containing speeches and debates from the German Bundestag on the topic of immigration.

Usage

data("de_immigration")

Format

A data frame with 16 variables:

date

Date of the speech, Date type

agenda

Agenda or subject of the speech, character

speechnumber

Unique identifier for each speech, numeric

speaker

Name of the person giving the speech, character

party

Political party of the speaker, character

party.facts.id

ID for the party, usually numeric or character

chair

Person chairing the session, character

terms

Terms or tags associated with the speech, character or list

text

Actual text of the speech, character

parliament

Which Bundestag session, character or numeric

iso3country

ISO3 country code for Germany, character

year

Year when the speech was made, numeric

agenda_ID

Unique identifier for the agenda, usually numeric or character

migration_dummy

Dummy variable related to migration topic, usually numeric (0 or 1)

comment_agenda

Additional comments on the agenda, character

Source

Data collected from ParSpeechV2 the House of Commons for the year 2010. The dataset is publicly available at https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/L4OAKN.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
data(de_immigration)
head(de_immigration)
} # }