3.4 Politicians Table

This table contains information about every politician that was a member of parliament or member of the government since 1949.

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id	firstName	lastName	birthPlace	birthCountry	birthDate	deathDate	gender	profession	aristocracy	academicTitle
11000001	Manfred	Abelein	Stuttgart	Deutschland	1930-10-20	2008-01-17	männlich	Rechtsanwalt, Wirtschaftsprüfer, Universitätsprofessor	NA	Prof. Dr.
11000002	Ernst	Achenbach	Siegen	Deutschland	1909-04-09	1991-12-02	männlich	Rechtsanwalt und Notar	NA	Dr.
11000003	Annemarie	Ackermann	Parabutsch	Jugoslawien	1913-05-26	1994-02-18	weiblich	Hilfsreferentin	NA	NA
11000004	Else	Ackermann	Berlin	Deutschland	1933-11-06	2019-09-14	weiblich	Ärztin	NA	Dr.
11000005	Ulrich	Adam	Teterow, Kr. Teterow, Bezirk Neubrandenburg	Deutschland	1950-06-09	NA	männlich	Mathematiker, Geschäftsführer	NA	NA
11000007	Rudolf	Adams	Masburg / Kreis Cochem	Deutschland	1919-11-10	2013-05-25	männlich	Gewerkschaftssekretär	NA	NA
11000008	Raban	Adelmann	Düsseldorf	Deutschland	1912-09-28	1992-01-25	männlich	Landwirt, Weingutbesitzer	Graf	NA
11000009	Konrad	Adenauer	Köln	Deutschland	1876-01-05	1967-04-19	männlich	Bundeskanzler a. D.	NA	Dr.
11000010	Brigitte	Adler	Drangstedt / Krs. Wesermünde	Deutschland	1944-06-22	2004-10-25	weiblich	Reallehrerin	NA	NA
11000011	Eduard	Adorno	München	Deutschland	1920-10-31	2000-12-28	männlich	Dipl.-Landwirt, Landesminister a. D.	NA	NA

this preview depicts the first 10 rows of the politicians table.

The politicians table has the following dimensions:

Feature	Total
Number of observations	4105
Number of variables	11

3.4.1 Politicians summary table

Variable	Class	# unique	Missing Values	Description
id	integer64	4105	0.02%	Primary Key. The missing value count is due to the fact that one ID represents missing information about a politician (-1)
firstName	character	991	0.00%	First name of the politician.
lastName	character	3283	0.02%	Last name of the politician.
birthPlace	character	2181	0.49%	Place of birth of the politician.
birthCountry	character	39	0.39%	Country of birth of the politician.
birthDate	Date	3849	0.39%	Date of birth of the politician.
deathDate	Date	1809	53.96%	Date of death of the politician.
gender	character	3	0.39%	Gender of the politician.
profession	character	2201	0.46%	Profession of the politician.
aristocracy	character	10	99.05%	Royal/noble rank of the politician.
academicTitle	character	19	74.42%	Academic title of the politician.

3.4.2 Additional Remarks

All meta information about the politicians is directly drawn from the base data of the MPs. The Open Discourse corpus only contains a selection of the publicly available personal details of the politicians. A comprehensive resource of the available meta data can be found on the website of the Bundestag. There are some rare cases in which people were members of the government but never held a mandate as a member of the parliament. These politicians are not covered in the base data mentioned above. To fill this gap in the base data, we merge the file with data retrieved from Wikipedia.

NOTICE!

Genders in the Open Discourse database are based on the information drawn from the meta data mentioned above. At the time being this data source only distinguishes between female and male and hence the Open Discourse data also follows this binary gender system.

An exception to this binary classification are the politicians retrieved from Wikipedia. The Open Discourse data does not have any information about their gender.

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