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Chile

Cámara de Diputadas y Diputados · 1990–2025

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  1. Search this plenary, from 1990 to 2025, by text, date, party, legislature (the term each Record prints), and deputy.
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What it is

The plenary of this chamber, turn by turn, according to its official record: Boletín de sesión.

Chile · 1990 · 81 sessions · 18,696 speech turnsChile · 1991 · 100 sessions · 25,289 speech turnsChile · 1992 · 109 sessions · 21,118 speech turnsChile · 1993 · 107 sessions · 18,518 speech turnsChile · 1994 · 107 sessions · 18,985 speech turnsChile · 1995 · 116 sessions · 17,283 speech turnsChile · 1996 · 108 sessions · 14,251 speech turnsChile · 1997 · 99 sessions · 12,089 speech turnsChile · 1998 · 103 sessions · 12,194 speech turnsChile · 1999 · 100 sessions · 11,674 speech turnsChile · 2000 · 95 sessions · 11,557 speech turnsChile · 2001 · 82 sessions · 9,779 speech turnsChile · 2002 · 114 sessions · 13,494 speech turnsChile · 2003 · 121 sessions · 12,681 speech turnsChile · 2004 · 128 sessions · 12,375 speech turnsChile · 2005 · 108 sessions · 10,142 speech turnsChile · 2006 · 122 sessions · 13,447 speech turnsChile · 2007 · 138 sessions · 15,095 speech turnsChile · 2008 · 134 sessions · 14,449 speech turnsChile · 2009 · 129 sessions · 12,522 speech turnsChile · 2010 · 133 sessions · 14,142 speech turnsChile · 2011 · 141 sessions · 16,146 speech turnsChile · 2012 · 133 sessions · 15,569 speech turnsChile · 2013 · 126 sessions · 12,648 speech turnsChile · 2014 · 126 sessions · 15,008 speech turnsChile · 2015 · 128 sessions · 17,288 speech turnsChile · 2016 · 134 sessions · 15,714 speech turnsChile · 2017 · 125 sessions · 10,503 speech turnsChile · 2018 · 138 sessions · 11,101 speech turnsChile · 2019 · 150 sessions · 14,768 speech turnsChile · 2020 · 145 sessions · 19,154 speech turnsChile · 2021 · 133 sessions · 15,443 speech turnsChile · 2022 · 125 sessions · 19,663 speech turnsChile · 2023 · 145 sessions · 23,310 speech turnsChile · 2024 · 133 sessions · 20,721 speech turnsChile · 2025 · 120 sessions · 19,863 speech turns
Every year has a session, from 1990 to 2025.
Table
Chile, Cámara de Diputadas y Diputados: from 1990 to 2025.
PeriodSessionsSpeech turns
19908118,696
199110025,289
199210921,118
199310718,518
199410718,985
199511617,283
199610814,251
19979912,089
199810312,194
199910011,674
20009511,557
2001829,779
200211413,494
200312112,681
200412812,375
200510810,142
200612213,447
200713815,095
200813414,449
200912912,522
201013314,142
201114116,146
201213315,569
201312612,648
201412615,008
201512817,288
201613415,714
201712510,503
201813811,101
201915014,768
202014519,154
202113315,443
202212519,663
202314523,310
202413320,721
202512019,863

Derived edition for research: in case of any discrepancy, your chamber's Record prevails.

Where it comes from

Session bulletins of the Cámara de Diputadas y Diputados de Chile (Open Data, https://opendata.camara.cl/), 1990-2025. Four complementary formats: structured XML (1991-2024), scanned PDF with an embedded text layer (1990-1995), Word .DOC (1996-2015) and digital PDF (2016-2025). How it was transformed, step by step, is told in the process report that comes with the dataset.

Numbers

  • 4,336 sessions, in 36 of 36 years.With no speech turns, 13.
  • 596,729 rows; 556,679 are speech turns.
  • In 95.07% of those speech turns, we know which deputy is speaking; another 3.37% belong to those who cannot hold a seat. Not counting these or collective voices, 99.57%.

View how it is calculated

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.

Sex is assigned by us, with more error for women than for men. That error was measured in eleven rosters—the lists of deputies—reviewed by hand. This one is not among them, and its series is drawn differently.
View speech turns and women speakers
Chile · Women's voice, in words
PeriodWordsSpeech turnsWomen speakers
1990–996.04%1,567,951 / 25,968,4554.96%8,078 / 163,01710.13%23 / 227
2000–0911.16%3,381,613 / 30,297,12510.70%12,914 / 120,65013.51%30 / 222
2010–1914.65%3,964,352 / 27,068,95314.64%19,867 / 135,74318.37%52 / 283
2020–2526.30%5,204,215 / 19,789,58323.54%25,843 / 109,80429.07%75 / 258

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 957 MB. 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; Miranda Olivares, Nicolás. DOI: 10.7910/DVN/IKBNRL. Edition v2.0. License CC BY 4.0.

Identifiers are stable within an edition, not across editions.

How to cite

Rodrigues-Silveira, Rodrigo; Miranda Olivares, Nicolás, 2026, "ParlaIbero-CL: Parliamentary Speeches from Chile (1990-2025)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IKBNRL, Harvard Dataverse, V2