• Description of Roll call votes data for the Mexican Chamber of Deputies repository
• License
• Citation in BibTex format
• Files included
• Data
• Codebook
• Acknowledgements

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Description of Roll call votes data for the Mexican Chamber of Deputies repository

• Author: Eric Magar
• Email: emagar at gmail dot com
• GitHub: https://github.com/emagar/dipMex

The repository contains roll call data for recent Cámaras de Diputados of the Mexican Congress. It also includes data on the deputies present in each. Data has been compiled primarily from the Cámara's web page at http://www.diputados.gob.mx/, with information from other sources and the press.

Repository contains code, raw data, and clean roll call databases. Code included replicates data downloading from the primary source (code/getweb/); databases preparation from raw data (code/rcPrep); and descriptive analysis and ideal point estimation (code/rcAnalysis/). Raw data is in data/fromWeb/ directory. If interested in clean roll call votes only, simply copy the contents of the data/votesForWeb/ subdirectory. Data includes roll call votes of the 60th (1sep2006-31aug2009), 61st (1sep2009-31aug2012), and most of the 62nd (1sep2012-7oct2014) Legislatures. Data is in R (http://cran.r-project.org/) and csv formats.

License

This repository in under the MIT License, see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT. The sole condition to use the data is to cite it as follows: Francisco Cantu, Scott Desposato, and Eric Magar. 2014. "Consideraciones metodologicas para estudiantes de politica legislativa mexicana: sesgo por seleccion en votaciones nominales". Politica y Gobierno vol. 21, num. 1, pp. 25-54.

Citation in BibTex format

@article{cantuDesposatoMagar2014,
        title = {Consideraciones metodol\'ogicas para estudiantes de pol\'itica legislativa mexicana: sesgo por selecci\'on en votaciones nominales},
        author = {Cant\'u, Francisco and Desposato, Scott and Magar, Eric},
        year = {2014},
        volume = {21},
        number = {1},
        journal = {Pol\'itica y Gobierno},
        pages = {25--54}
        url = {http://www.politicaygobierno.cide.edu/index.php/pyg/article/view/18/564}
}

Files included

• data/diputados/dip*.csv = comma-separated vote for all diputados elected to one term of office (Legislatura). The numeral identifies the term in question (eg. dip58.csv are 58th Legislatura members). Columns include the following data:
  • pila = member's first and middle names.
  • patmat = member's last names (includes patronym and matronym, as used in Mexico).
  • id = district identifier. For members elected in single-member districts (SMDs), the id concatenates the state abbreviation, the district number, and whether the member is propietario (p) or suplente (s). For members elected by proportional representation (PR), the id includes information on the second-tier district number and the member's propietario/suplente status.
  • edo = SMD's state. For PR members, the state that they declared representing (often none).
  • birth = member's birthyear.
  • gen = member's gender (*M*ale or *F*emale).
  • part = member's party.
  • postulo = party that nominated the member, if different from part.
  • dsmd = dummy equal 1 for SMD members, 0 for members elected by PR.
  • dsup = dummy equal 1 for suplentes, 0 for propietarios. Suplentes may replace propietarios taking leaves o absence (licencia).
  • cabecera = administrative seat of SMDs.
  • yrin moin dyin = date when member took oath.
  • yrout moout dyout = date when member took a leave of absence.
  • lider = indicates party leaders or deputy leaders.
  • prescom = member chaired a permanent committee (comisión ordinaria).
  • repite = members present in other terms: eg. 58-62 would indicate member present in 58th and 62nd Legislaturas; but 580-62 would indicate that member was elected to the same but never took the oath of office to the 58th Legislatura.
  • doath = dummy equal 1 for members who took the oath of office, 0 otherwise.
• (Under construction)

Data

The objects in each R file (zipped together in text-only files) are the following: -dipdat has individual federal deputy information (names, gender, state and district, party, dcarta=dummy equal 1 for members filing a letter of intent with the chamber's Junta to run for office again (inapplicable before 2018 see this), dreran=dummy equal 1 for members renominated, dreelected=dummy equal 1 for members who reelected. -votdat: has vote information (favor=ayes, contra=nays, absten=abstained, quorum=present but not voting, ausen=no show, title=motion considered, leg=legislature, yr-mo-dy=vote's date). -rc: roll call vote information (0=was not chamber member, 1=aye, 2=nay, 3=abstained, 4=present but did not vote, 5=no show). -dgaceta: indicates whether (1) or not (0) the vote was also reported by the Gaceta Parlamentaria, as discussed by Cantu, Desposato, and Magar 2014.

Codebook

Variables usually appear as columns in a data frame. A list of variables included in the files follows.

• leg = Legislature numeral.
• pila = member's first name and middle names, if any.
• patmat = member's last names (patronym and matronym).
• id = member's id: state + district + p/s for propietario/suplente.
• birth = member's birth year.
• gen = member's gender, *F*emale or *M*ale.
• postulo = electoral party or coalition.
• part = legislative party.
• edo = member's state.
• dsmd = dummy equal 1 if member elected in single-member district, 0 otherwise.
• dsup = dummy equal 1 if member was elected as a substitute (suplente), 0 otherwise (propietario).
• cabecera = member's district administrative head.
• yrin1, moin1, dyin1 = year month day member first started serving in the Legislature, ie. date doath gets value 1.
• yrout1, moout1, dyout1 = year month day member first took a leave of absence (licencia), if any.
• yrin2, moin2, dyin2 = year month day member returned from first leave of absence, if any.
• yrout2, moout2, dyout2 = year month day member took second leave of absence (licencia), if any.
• yrin3, moin3, dyin3 = year month day member returned from second leave of absence, if any.
• yrout3, moout3, dyout3 = year month day member took third leave of absence (licencia), if any.
• lider = member's leadership post, if any.
• prescom = dummy equal 1 if member was a committee chair, 0 otherwise (propietario).
• repite = member's previous Congressional experience (sequential Legislatures if prior deputy, `sen' if prior senator).
• doath = dummy equal 1 if member took the oath of office (toma de protesta), 0 otherwise.
• ptysh = share of seats controlled by the member's party.
• nom = member's name.

Acknowledgements

Eric Magar Meurs acknowledges financial support from the Asociación Mexicana de Cultura A.C. Many thanks to Ana Lucía Enríquez Araiza, Sonia Kuri Kosegarten, Vidal Mendoza Tinoco, Eugenio Solís Flores Tinoco, and Guilermo Alfaro Núñez for research assistance. The author is responsible for mistakes and shortcomings in the data. Please report any error to emagar at gmail dot com.