h116 {pumBayes} | R Documentation |
116th U.S. House of Representatives Roll Call Votes
Description
This dataset contains roll call voting records from the 116th U.S. House of Representatives. The data was obtained using the 'readKH()' function from Voteview, which reads roll call vote data from the Voteview database.
Usage
data(h116)
Format
A list with 8 elements:
- votes
A '452 × 952' matrix of roll call votes, where each row represents a legislator and each column represents a vote.
- codes
A list containing vote codes:
- yea
Codes representing 'Yes' votes.
- nay
Codes representing 'No' votes.
- notInLegis
Codes for members not in the legislature.
- missing
Codes for missing votes.
- n
Integer, number of legislators (452).
- m
Integer, number of votes (952).
- legis.data
A data frame ('452 × 6') containing legislator information:
- state
State abbreviation of each legislator.
- icpsrState
ICPSR state code.
- cd
Congressional district.
- icpsrLegis
ICPSR legislator ID.
- party
Party affiliation ('"D"', '"R"', '"I"'.).
- partyCode
Numerical party code ('200' for Democrats, '100' for Republicans, '328' for Independents.).
- vote.data
Currently NULL (reserved for additional vote metadata).
- desc
Description: '"116th U.S. House of Representatives"'.
- source
URL for the original data source.
Source
Jeffrey B. Lewis, Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet. Voteview: Congressional roll-call votes database. https://voteview.com/, 2024. Accessed: 2024-07-15.
Examples
data(h116)
str(h116)