fec16: fec16: A Data Package for the 2016 Elections

In fec16: Data Package for the 2016 United States Federal Elections

fec16: A Data Package for the 2016 Elections

Description

The fec16 package provides the following 9 datasets from the Federal Election Commission's 2015-2016 election cycle:

Datasets

• Candidates: candidates

• Committees: committees

• House Results: results_house

• Senate Results: results_senate

• Presidential Results: results_president

• Individual Contributions: individuals

• Committee Contributions: contributions

• House/Senate Current Campaigns: campaigns

• Operating Expenditures: expenditures

• Transactions From One Committee To Another: transactions

• Political Action Committee (PAC) and Party Summary Financial Information: pac

The entire candidates, committees, campaigns, results_house, results_senate, results_president, and pac datasets and samples containing 1000 entries of the other datasets are available directly in the package. For the datasets containing samples, full versions can be retrieved via the following functions:

• Individual Contributions: read_all_individuals

• Committee Contributions: read_all_contributions

• Operating Expenditures: read_all_expenditures

• Transactions From One Committee To Another: read_all_transactions

In addition, fec16 provides the states dataset giving geographical information about the 50 states.

Authors

• Marium Tapal: https://github.com/mariumtapal

• Irene Ryan: https://github.com/ireneryan

• Rana Gahwagy: https://github.com/ranawg

• Ben Baumer: https://github.com/beanumber

fec16 documentation built on Aug. 9, 2023, 5:08 p.m.