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Documentation

In Party Facts, we only include party information and not the entire original data source.

All original datasets are ignored in version control with the prefix source__ in the local copy.

Files are UTF-8 encoded.

Import of data into the Party Facts database is done by the project maintainers.

For a detailed instruction how to contribute your dataset, see our import guide.

R packages and snippets

Most of the data preparation is done in R. Some scripts may require additional packages. We have a strong preference for RStudio R packages (esp. tidyverse). run-all.R includes information about used packages.

Please use the tidyverse R Style Guide when writing code in R.

Party Facts import requires ISO3 country codes. country.csv includes the respective information. Recode country names with the R-package countrycode

# Example country recoding from Marpor import
marpor <- marpor %>%
  mutate(country = countrycode(countryname, "country.name", "iso3c",
                               custom_match = c(`Northern Ireland` = "NIR")))
if(any(is.na(marpor$country))) {
  warning("Country name clean-up needed")
}

Template

Template for dataset readme.md files

# Dataset name

## Source(s)

+ (...) reference in [APSA style](https://connect.apsanet.org/stylemanual/references/)

## Credits (optional)

+ (...) name -- institution -- year(s)

## Import

+ (...) short description of data preparation pipeline

## Linking status (optional)

+ (...) e.g. "completed linking parties > 5% share (staggered import)""

## Comments (optional)

+ (...)

## Todo later (optional)

+ (...)

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 _add figure for dataset if feasible (see examples ParlGov and V-Party)_

PF Data number of parties in dataset