fec12: fec12: A Data Package for the 2012 Elections

In baumer-lab/fec12: Data Package for 2012 Federal Elections

Description

The fec12 package provides the following 9 datasets from the Federal Election Commission's 2011-2012 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 comtaining 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

Authors

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

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

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

• Benjamin S. Baumer: https://github.com/beanumber

baumer-lab/fec12 documentation built on Aug. 29, 2020, 2:14 a.m.