README · Coverage: what there is for each chamber, year by year
ParlaIbero · Data, edition of September 7, 2026 · Website, edition 0.1 ·
generated on October 3, 2026

WHAT IT MEASURES
For each chamber and each year between 1976 and 2025: whether the database has
at least one session, how many sessions, and how many speech turns.

DENOMINATOR
A total of 800 cells, one per chamber and year. Of these, 527 have at least
one session.
Each row carries its n and its denominator. An empty cell means that the
chamber has no sessions in that period. It does not mean zero.

FILES
cobertura.csv: UTF-8, comma-separated, with a decimal point.
cobertura.xlsx: the same, for Excel. If your Excel uses a decimal comma, open
this one.
cobertura_por_ano.csv: UTF-8, comma-separated, with a decimal point.
cobertura_por_ano.xlsx: the same, for Excel. If your Excel uses a decimal
comma, open this one.
LEAME.txt: this file.

COLUMNS
cobertura.csv
  iso, pais, camara, diario, inicio, fin, anos_con_sesion, huecos, sesiones,
  filas, turnos_de_habla, doi, version
cobertura_por_ano.csv
  iso, ano, sesiones, turnos_de_habla

CAVEAT
A filled cell means that there is at least one session from that year, not
that all of them are there. The shade shows how much material there is, not
how much debate. Before the start of a series the cell is empty, and it is not
a gap. A declared gap is a span of years within the series that the chamber's
repository does not have, and it carries its label.
There are five countries missing from a universe of 21. Venezuela, Cuba, and
Nicaragua do not publish the records of their debates. Bolivia publishes them
without digitizing them. Honduras publishes summaries of what was discussed,
not the interventions.

SOURCE
Calculated from the sixteen ParlaIbero datasets deposited in Harvard
Dataverse: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/parlaibero. The provenance
of each number is in procedencia.csv. Derived edition for research: in case of
any discrepancy, each chamber's Record prevails.

LICENSE
CC BY 4.0. You may copy, adapt, and redistribute these data if you cite the
source.

HOW TO CITE
Rodrigues-Silveira, Rodrigo (2026). “Coverage: what there is for each chamber,
year by year.” ParlaIbero, figure data, edition of September 7, 2026.
Instituto de Iberoamérica, Universidad de Salamanca.
https://rodrodr.github.io/parlaibero/en/paises/#rejilla. Accessed [date of
your access].
If you use a country's data, also cite its dataset, with its DOI. The citation
is on the country page.

ERRORS AND CONTACT
rodrodr@usal.es