Description Usage Arguments Details Value Note See Also Examples
seats_fed()
downloads and aggregates data on the number of seats under dispute in
federal elections in Brazil. The function returns a tbl, data.frame
where each observation
corresponds to a district-office dyad.
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year |
Election year. For this function, only the years of 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018 are available. |
uf |
Federation Unit acronym ( |
br_archive |
In the TSE's data repository, some results can be obtained for the whole country by loading a single
within a single file by setting this argument to |
ascii |
( |
encoding |
Data original encoding (defaults to 'Latin-1'). This can be changed to avoid errors
when |
export |
( |
temp |
( |
If export is set to TRUE
, the downloaded data is saved as .dta and .sav
files in the current directory.
seats_fed()
returns a data.frame
with the following variables:
DATA_GERACAO: Generation date of the file (when the data was collected).
HORA_GERACAO: Generation time of the file (when the data was collected), Brasilia Time.
ANO_ELEICAO: Election year.
DESCRICAO_ELEICAO: Description of the election.
SIGLA_UF: Units of the Federation's acronym in which occurred the election.
SIGLA_UE: Units of the Federation's acronym (In case of major election is the FU's acronym in which the candidate runs for (text) and in case of municipal election is the municipal's Supreme Electoral Court code (number)). Assume the special values BR, ZZ and VT to designate, respectively, Brazil, Overseas and Absentee Ballot.
NOME_UE: Description of the Electoral Unit.
CODIGO_CARGO: Code of the position that the candidate runs for.
DESCRICAO_CARGO: Description of the position that the candidate runs for.
QTDE_VAGAS: number of seats under dispute.
For the elections prior to 2000, some information can be incomplete.
seats_local
for local elections in Brazil.
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