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UN General Debate speeches from 2017
Description
A corpus of 196 speeches from the 2017 UN General Debate (Mikhaylov and Baturo, 2017). The economic data for 2017 (GDP and GDP per capita) are downloaded from the World Bank website.
Usage
data_corpus_ungd2017
Format
The corpus includes the following document variables:
- country_iso
ISO3c country code, e.g. "AFG" for Afghanistan
- un_session
UN session, a numeric identifier (in this case, 72)
- year
4-digit year (2017).
- country
country name, in English.
- continent
continent of the country, one of: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania. Note that the speech delivered on behalf of the European Union is coded as "Europe".
- gdp
GDP in $US for 2017, from the World Bank. Contains missing values for 9 countries.
- gdp_per_capita
GDP per capita in $US for 2017, derived from the World Bank. Contains missing values for 9 countries.
Source
Mikhaylov, M., Baturo, A., & Dasandi, N. (2017). "United Nations General Debate Corpus". doi:10.7910/DVN/0TJX8Y. Harvard Dataverse, V4.
References
Baturo, A., Dasandi, N., & Mikhaylov, S. (2017). "Understanding State Preferences With Text As Data: Introducing the UN General Debate Corpus". doi:10.1177/2053168017712821. Research and Politics.