Dataset of legislative activity by Indian parliamentary representatives. Sourced from PRS India.
Browse the minified dataset for the current Lok Sabha here: https://flatgithub.com/Vonter/india-representatives-activity?filename=csv/Lok%20Sabha/18th.csv&stickyColumnName=Name.
The complete dataset is available as JSON files under the json/ folder in this repository. The JSON files include details on Attendance, Debates, Questions and Private Member Bills. Each Lok Sabha is available as a separate JSON file:
Note:
- The legislative activity of a representative who is a "Minister" is not reported by PRS India. These representatives will have their activity reported as 0 in this dataset.
- Details about a few representatives are unavailable on PRS India. These representatives will be missing in this dataset.
Minified datasets, containing a subset of the data available in the above JSONs, can be found as CSV files under the csv/ folder.
Browse the minified datasets:
- 18th Lok Sabha (Current)
- 17th Lok Sabha
- 16th Lok Sabha
- 15th Lok Sabha
- Combined (15th-18th) Lok Sabha
Aggregated datasets, containing the legislative activity of every representative, grouped by activity type, can be found as CSV files under the activity/ folder.
Browse the aggregated datasets:
| Activity | 18th Lok Sabha (Current) | 17th Lok Sabha | 16th Lok Sabha | 15th Lok Sabha |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debates | 1949 rows | 22919 rows | 32713 rows | 18286 rows |
| Questions | 5589 rows | 101999 rows | 142340 rows | 143640 rows |
| Private Member Bills | 66 rows | 729 rows | 1116 rows | 372 rows |
- fetch.sh: Fetches the raw HTML pages from PRS India
- flatten.py: Parses the raw HTML pages, and generates the main JSON dataset
- minify.py: Parses the main JSON dataset, and minifies it into CSV files
- aggregate.py: Parses the main JSON dataset, and aggregates legislative activity, by activity type, into CSV files
This india-representatives-activity dataset is made available under the Open Database License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/. Users of this data should attribute PRS India: https://prsindia.org
You are free:
- To share: To copy, distribute and use the database.
- To create: To produce works from the database.
- To adapt: To modify, transform and build upon the database.
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Ensure you have bash, curl and python installed
# Fetch the data
bash fetch.sh
# Generate the JSONs
python flatten.py
# Generate the minified CSVs
python minify.py
# Generate the aggregated CSVs
python aggregate.py
The fetch script sources data from PRS India (https://prsindia.org/)
- State Legislatures
- Rajya Sabha