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Name:

information about the American states needed for U.S. Congress

Description:

Numeric codes and names of 50 states and the District of Columbia, required to parse Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal's collections of U.S. Congressional roll calls.

Variables:

icpsr: 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

Details

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).

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Files:

information about the American states needed for U.S.csv

License Type:

Public Domain (CC0)

References/Notes/Attributions:

Source

Various ICPSR codebooks. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu

See Also

state

R Dataset Upload:

Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.

d <- read.csv("https://www.key2stats.com/information_about_the_American_states_needed_for_U_S.csv")