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Historical Congressional Legislation and District Demographics 1972-2014

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Historical Congressional Legislation and District Demographics 1972-2014
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CI2EPI
 
Creator Foster-Molina, Ella
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This data set matches district demographic information to a member of Congress's legislative actions from 1972 through 2013. The unit of analysis is individual members of Congress.



For each member of Congress there is data on:


  • personal characteristics for age, gender, race, ideology,
    etc.

  • district information for income, education, employment,
    etc.

  • legislative information for number of bills introduced, number enacted into law, etc.

  • committee information
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Foster-Molina, Ella
 
Relation Congressional Bills Project, DW-Nominate