UK House of Commons Immigration Debate Data — uk_immigration • flaiR

A dataset containing speeches and debates from the UK House of Commons on the topic of immigration in 2010.

Usage

data("uk_immigration")

Format

A data frame with 12 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 a 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 parliament session, character or numeric
iso3country: ISO3 country code where the parliament is located, character
year: Year when the speech was made, numeric

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(uk_immigration)
head(uk_immigration)
} # }