congress_age {fivethirtyeight}

Both Republicans And Democrats Have an Age Problem

Description

The raw data behind the story "Both Republicans And Democrats Have an Age Problem" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/both-republicans-and-democrats-have-an-age-problem/.

Usage

congress_age

Format

A data frame with 18,635 rows representing members of Congress (House and Senate) and 13 variables:

congress

Congress number.

chamber

Chamber of congress: House of Representatives or Senate.

bioguide

bioguide

firstname

First name

middlename

Middle name

lastname

Last name

suffix

Suffix

birthday

Birthday

state

State abbreviation

party

Party abbreviation

incumbent

Boolean variable of whether member was an incumbent.

termstart

Start date of session.

age

Age at start of session.

Source

See https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/congress-age