The dataframe contains roll call data for all Senators in the 90th Senate.
The data is formatted as a rollcall
object with the following elements.
- votes
data frame, containing all data from the old nom31.dat
file about
legislators. For a typical W-NOMINATE object run with an ORD file read using
readKH
, it will contain the following:
state
State name of legislator.
icpsrState
ICPSR state code of legislator.
cd
Congressional District number.
icpsrLegis
ICPSR code of legislator.
party
Party of legislator.
partyCode
ICPSR party code of legislator.
- codes
list of four vectors. yea
shows the codes in votes
that are yea
votes, 'nay' shows nay codes, notInLegis
shows absences, and missing
shows the missing codes.
- n
numeric, number of legislators
- m
numeric, number of roll calls
- legis.data
data frame, containing the following information on legislators:
state
State name of legislator.
icpsrState
ICPSR state code of legislator.
cd
Congressional District number.
icpsrLegis
ICPSR code of legislator.
party
Party of legislator.
partyCode
ICPSR party code of legislator.
- vote.data
null, would otherwise be a data frame containing data on the votes.
- desc
null, would otherwise be a string describing the data set.
- source
string, describing where data set was read from.