fec20: fec20: A Data Package for the 2020 Elections

In baumer-lab/fec20: Data Package for the 2020 United States Federal Elections

Description

The fec20 package provides the following 6 datasets from the Federal Election Commission's 2019-2020 election cycle:

Datasets

• Candidates: candidates

• Committees: committees

• 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, 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, fec20 provides the states dataset giving geographical information about the 50 states.

Note: There are 3 forthcoming datasets that contain results from the House, Senate, and Presidential elections.

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

baumer-lab/fec20 documentation built on Dec. 19, 2021, 6:44 a.m.