Brazil
Câmara dos Deputados · 2003–2025
Today you can
- Search this plenary, from 2003 to 2025, by text, date, party, legislature (the term each Record prints), and deputy.
- Open a session that you recognize: April 17, 2016. The chamber admits the impeachment proceedings against the president of the Republic. That it is here does not validate its content.
- Export with its citation. To cite a passage, give the date and the session number, and check it against the official Record.
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What it is
The plenary of this chamber, turn by turn, according to its official record: Notas taquigráficas (Íntegra das sessões).
Table
| Period | Sessions | Speech turns |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 369 | 80,163 |
| 2004 | 349 | 64,285 |
| 2005 | 364 | 77,666 |
| 2006 | 299 | 60,607 |
| 2007 | 381 | 90,819 |
| 2008 | 369 | 71,199 |
| 2009 | 395 | 83,578 |
| 2010 | 297 | 49,961 |
| 2011 | 406 | 68,630 |
| 2012 | 379 | 57,884 |
| 2013 | 461 | 104,427 |
| 2014 | 349 | 64,869 |
| 2015 | 485 | 115,753 |
| 2016 | 407 | 91,799 |
| 2017 | 512 | 110,622 |
| 2018 | 338 | 61,540 |
| 2019 | 486 | 74,492 |
| 2020 | 206 | 63,292 |
| 2021 | 284 | 79,600 |
| 2022 | 148 | 44,125 |
| 2023 | 151 | 51,248 |
| 2024 | 125 | 35,765 |
| 2025 | 171 | 47,374 |
Derived edition for research: in case of any discrepancy, your chamber's Record prevails.
Where it comes from
Câmara dos Deputados, full session records. https://www2.camara.leg.br/atividade-legislativa/plenario/discursos/notas.html. PDF. Legislatures 52-57 (2003-2025). How it was transformed, step by step, is told in the process report that comes with the dataset.
Numbers
- 7,731 sessions, in 23 of 23 years.With no speech turns, 898.
- 1,657,113 rows; 1,649,698 are speech turns.
- In 98.04% of those speech turns, we know which deputy is speaking; another 1.07% belong to those who cannot hold a seat. Not counting these or collective voices, 99.10%.
Women's voice, in words
Words of women deputies for every hundred words of deputies of known sex, by decade. It measures voice, not seats.
View speech turns and women speakers
| Period | Words | Speech turns | Women speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003–09 | 8.16%6,122,269 / 75,060,136 | 4.21%22,015 / 522,720 | 8.82%82 / 930 |
| 2010–19 | 10.55%9,707,697 / 92,050,212 | 9.05%70,871 / 783,295 | 11.59%160 / 1,380 |
| 2020–25 | 20.73%6,696,176 / 32,303,978 | 16.65%51,836 / 311,367 | 18.36%161 / 877 |
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.
Before using it
This corpus declares five limitations, each one measured. They are in the dataset's "Known limitations" document, in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
The dataset
There are 17 files: the interventions; the roster; README, data dictionary, known limitations, and processing report, in English, Spanish, and Portuguese; and, for software, corpus numbers, metadata, and linkage methods.
The interventions file is 1.4 GB. Do not open it in a spreadsheet: it can truncate rows and text. When you choose the file, the explorer tells you how much memory it needs.
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Authorship: Rodrigues-Silveira, Rodrigo. DOI: 10.7910/DVN/VTXNW3. Edition v2.0. License CC BY 4.0.
Identifiers are stable within an edition, not across editions.
How to cite
Rodrigues-Silveira, Rodrigo, 2026, "ParlaIbero-BR: Parliamentary Speeches from Brazil (2003-2025)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VTXNW3, Harvard Dataverse, V2