The Legislator' Demographic Information and Background

Provides access to legislators' basic demographic and background information through the Legislative Yuan's V1 API interface.

Usage

get_legislators(term = NULL, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

term: numeric or NULL The data is available from the 2nd term.
verbose: logical, indicates whether get_meetings should print out detailed output when retrieving the data. The default is set to TRUE.

Value

list contains:

query_time

the queried time

queried_term

the queried term

url

the retrieved json url

variable_names

the variables of the tibble dataframe

manual_info

the official manual from https://data.ly.gov.tw/getds.action?id=16, or use legisTaiwan::get_variable_info("get_legislators")

data

a tibble dataframe, whose variables include:

name: Legislator's name (Chinese)
ename: Legislator's name (English)
sex: Gender
party: Political party affiliation
partyGroup: Party group/caucus
committee: Committee assignment
onboardDate: Onboard date (Gregorian year)
degree: Education background
experience: Work experience
picPath: Photo URL/path
leaveFlag: Leave date (Gregorian year)
leaveReason: Reason for leaving

Details

This function retrieves comprehensive data about legislators including their personal information, political background, and demographic details. The data is available starting from the 2nd legislative term.

get_legislators produces a list, which contains query_time, queried_term, url, variable_names, manual_info and data.

Note

To retrieve the user manual and more information about variable of the data frame, please use get_variable_info("get_legislators") or visit the API manual at https://data.ly.gov.tw/getds.action?id=16. Provides legislators' basic information; the earliest available data goes back to the 2nd term.

Author

Yen-Chieh Liao (davidycliao@gmail.com)

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Get data for the 9th term
legislators_data <- get_legislators(term = 9)
legislators_data
} # }