R/policy_areas.R

In jfjelstul/ecio: The European Commission Internal Organization (ECIO) Database

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# Joshua C. Fjelstul, Ph.D.
# ecio R package
# automatically generated by the codebookr R package
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#' Data on policy areas
#' 
#' This dataset includes data on policy areas covered by departments of the
#' Commission (1958-2021). There is one observation per policy area. EUR-Lex,
#' the Commission's official database of EU legal documents, sorts documents
#' based on a case law directory and a directory of legal acts. There is a
#' pre-Lisbon and post-Lisbon version of the case law directory. The dataset
#' indicates the directory codes that correspond to each policy area according
#' to each of these classification schemes.
#' 
#' @format A data frame with 6 variables:
#' \describe{
#' \item{key_id}{\code{numeric}. An ID number that uniquely identifies each
#' observation. Indicates the default sort order for the dataset.}
#' \item{policy_area_id}{\code{numeric}. An ID number that uniquely identifies
#' each policy area. See the \code{policy_areas} dataset.}
#' \item{policy_area}{\code{string}. The name of the policy area. See the
#' \code{policy_areas} dataset.}
#' \item{case_law_old}{\code{string}. A list of the codes from the pre-Lisbon
#' version of EUR-Lex's Case Law Directory that apply to the policy area.}
#' \item{case_law_new}{\code{string}. A list of the codes from the post-Lisbon
#' version of EUR-Lex's Case Law Directory that apply to the policy area.}
#' \item{legislation}{\code{string}. A list of the codes from EUR-Lex's
#' Directory of Legal Acts that apply to the policy area.}
#' }
"policy_areas"

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