MaFiText-Bundestag speeches: Processing stenographic protocols of the German Bundestag

  • Latifi, Albina1 ORCID icon
    • 1. Justus Liebig Universität Gießen

    Published: August 7, 2024

    Version v1

    Description

    This dataset includes replication data from the study "Fiscal Policy in the Bundestag: Textual Analysis and Macroeconomic Effects" by Albina Latifi, Viktoriia Naboka-Krell, Peter Tillmann, and Peter Winker. The dataset encompasses all speeches from the German Bundestag from September 7, 1949, to September 7, 2021, totaling 877,140 speeches.

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    Variables

    Name Description
    doc_id The overall document ID.
    doc_lp_id ID for each legislature period.
    speech_identification_ent Identified Entity for speech identification obtained by Named Entity Recognition Model.
    date Date object which represents date of each speech.
    period The legislative period.
    session Specifies the particular session.
    pos_speechbeginning Potential identification of a speech. Needed to disaggregate the corpus.
    Party Party affiliation of the speaker. Values: {'no-text' (e.g. chair), 'CDU/CSU', 'KPD', 'SPD', 'FDP', 'BP', 'Cabinet' (e.g. members of government), 'DP', 'Zentrum', 'NR', 'WAV', 'parteilos', 'NS', 'DRP', 'SRP', 'GB/BHE', 'fraktionslos', 'FU', 'DPB', 'DA', 'GRÜNE', 'PDS', 'LINKE', 'AfD'}
    Role Role of the speaker. Values: {'Alterspraesident', 'MdB', 'Bundestagspraesident', 'Schriftfuehrer', 'Bundeskanzler', 'Bundesminister', 'Vizepraesident', 'Staatssekretär', 'Staatsminister, 'Landesminister', 'Senator', 'Buergermeister', 'Gastredner', 'Wehrbeauftragter', 'Beauftragter'}
    governing_Party Indicates governing Party. Values: {0: Opposition, 1: Governing Party, 'no-text' : without assignment (e.g. chair), nan: non-party members/ non-affiliated members of parliament}}
    text Speech content.
    text_length Total number of words in a speech.

    Details

    Resource type Funded Research project dataset
    Title MaFiText-Bundestag speeches: Processing stenographic protocols of the German Bundestag
    Creators
  • Latifi, Albina1 ORCID icon
    • Research Fields Economics Political Science Economic & Social History
    Size 1.6 GB
    Formats Comma-separated values (CSV) (.csv)
    License(s) Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
    Countries Germany

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    Peer review: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2024.104827 (DOI)