data.stortinget.no

[briatte]

data.stortinget.no has been updated (thanks to Magnus Eide for letting me know). The code should be updated to use the open data XML dumps instead of the online pages.

A preliminary analysis shows that the bills data go back to 1986, which represents 12 additional years (3 more legislatures) in comparison to the online pages.

Here are the legislature bill counts from scraping the online pages:

> table(a$legislature)

1997-2001 2001-2005 2005-2009 2009-2013 2013-2017 
      291       482       479       640       119 

And here are the same counts from the open data dumps, after some cleaning:

> table(b$legislature[ b$n_au > 0 ])

  1985-89   1989-93   1993-97 1997-2001 2001-2005 2005-2009 2009-2013 2013-2017 
      133       216       401       417       492       504       663       123 

The slight difference is due to cancelled or withdrawn bills.

[briatte]

Code updated, fixing various mistakes on the way.