state.info: Information about the American states needed for U.S. Congress
Description
Numeric codes and names of 50 states and the District of Columbia,
needed so as to parse Poole
and Rosenthal's collections of U.S. Congressional roll callsformat
{integer, numeric code for state used by the
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research}
state
{character, name of state or Washington
D.C.
}
year
{numeric or NA
, year of statehood}source
Various ICPSR codebooks. http://www.icpsr.umich.eduDetails
The function readKH
converts the integer ICPSR codes
into strings, via a table lookup in this data frame. Another table
lookup in state.abb
provides the 2-letter abbreviation
commonly used in identifying American legislators, e.g.,
KENNEDY, E (D-MA)
.