meps: Data set on members of the European Parliament

In expersso/meps: Data Set on Members of the European Parliament

Data set on members of the European Parliament

Description

The dataset contains data on all MEPs for parliamentary terms 1 through 8.

Usage

meps

Format

A data frame with eight variables:

id

ID number.

full_name

Full name.

pterm

Parliamentary term.

pg

Political group in the EP. See details.

np

National party. See details.

country

Country.

pg_full

Data frame with full info on roles and political group memberships during a given parliamentary term.

np_full

Data frame with full info on roles and political group memberships during a given parliamentary term.

Technically, pg and np are the political group and national party the MEP belonged to at the beginning of the parliamentary term. Since some MEPs switch parties/groups during the term, pg_full and np_full contain data frames with the full details of party allegiances, roles, and dates.

For further details, see https://www.europarl.europa.eu

Examples

{str(meps)}

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