Members of the National Assembly

AssNat project - MNA since 1972.

Fields in output

• mp_id: Unique Member of the National Assembly (MNA) ID
• mp_name: First Name Last Name of MNA
• mp_female: Gender variables coded 1 for female 0 for male
• mp_yob: Year of Birth
• mp_yod: Year of Death
• mp_url: Url from where the data is harvested
• elected_year: First year in sentence that matches with "elu"
• mp_link_sent: Sentences containing references to Familiy Ties
• mp_desc: Description contained in the personal pages of the MNA
• party_i: Political parties Political Parties that match in the description of the MNA
• link_j: Family ties that match in the description of sentences with references to other MNA
• mp_n: MNA names that match in sentences containing references to Familiy Ties

Elected Parties

- pq   = 'Parti québécois',
- plq  = 'Parti libéral du Québec',
- caq  = 'Coalition Avenir Québec',
- qs   = 'Québec Solidaire',
- adq  = 'Action démocratique du Québec',
- aln  = 'Action libérale nationale',
- bpc  = 'Bloc populaire canadien',
- fcc  = 'Fédération du Commonwealth Coopératif',
- pcdq = 'Parti social démocratique du Québec',
- dem  = 'Les démocrates',
- pdc  = 'Parti démocrate créditiste',
- lnc  = 'Ligue nationaliste canadienne',
- pe   = 'Parti égalité',
- po   = 'Parti ouvrier',
- pcq  = 'Parti conservateur du Québec',
- pnp  = 'Parti national populaire',
- rcq  = 'Ralliement créditiste du Québec',
- pc   = 'Parti créditiste',
- un   = 'Union nationale',
- uq   = 'Unité-Québec'

TODO:

• fix non extracted YOB & YOD
• Family ties instead of connection
• fix dots for names and cities in desc
• Divide assnat_scraper into a scraper file and variable creation file from harvested content
• Add all useful functions to src/funs.R