README · Women deputies' voice in the plenary, by chamber and decade
ParlaIbero · Data, edition of September 7, 2026 · Website, edition 0.1 ·
generated on October 3, 2026

WHAT IT MEASURES
Of the words spoken in the plenary by deputies, the share spoken by women. One
series per chamber and one number per decade. The file also gives the same
share in speech turns and in women speakers.

DENOMINATOR
The words of deputies of known sex, in that chamber and that decade. Those who
cannot hold a seat, collective voices, and non-speech rows are not included.
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
voz_por_camara.csv: UTF-8, comma-separated, with a decimal point.
voz_por_camara.xlsx: the same, for Excel. If your Excel uses a decimal comma,
open this one.
LEAME.txt: this file.

COLUMNS
voz_por_camara.csv
  iso, pais, camara, decada, medida, valor, n, den, sexo_auditado, clave,
  medido_el

CAVEAT
It measures voice, not presence: read it alongside the series on seats. It is
not an official indicator, and it does not rank countries.
Sex is assigned by us, with more error for women than for men. We assign it
correctly for 99.54% of men and for 97.43% of women, on 38,372 rows reviewed
by hand in eleven rosters.
In five chambers—Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru—the roster is
unaudited, and a column marks it.
Turns include the chair; that is why the public measure is words.
The series was measured on September 7, 2026 from our working files, which
differ from the deposited files only for Ecuador: two sessions and 150 rows
after the edition's cutoff. If you recalculate the last decade for Ecuador
from your download, it may not match exactly.

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). “Women deputies' voice in the plenary, by
chamber and decade.” ParlaIbero, figure data, edition of September 7, 2026.
Instituto de Iberoamérica, Universidad de Salamanca.
https://rodrodr.github.io/parlaibero/en/#voz. 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