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Colombia

Cámara de Representantes · 2000–2025

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  1. Search this plenary, from 2000 to 2025, by text, date, party, legislature (the term each Record prints), and deputy.
  2. 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: Gaceta del Congreso (actas de plenaria).

Colombia · 2000 · 43 sessions · 7,453 speech turnsColombia · 2001 · 10 sessions · 1,789 speech turnsColombia · 2002 · 18 sessions · 4,914 speech turnsColombia · 2003 · 25 sessions · 6,712 speech turnsColombia · 2004 · 42 sessions · 9,722 speech turnsColombia · 2005 · 50 sessions · 11,392 speech turnsColombia · 2006 · 49 sessions · 10,296 speech turnsColombia · 2007 · 56 sessions · 12,983 speech turnsColombia · 2008 · 68 sessions · 15,334 speech turnsColombia · 2009 · 66 sessions · 13,467 speech turnsColombia · 2010 · 61 sessions · 13,109 speech turnsColombia · 2011 · 66 sessions · 15,922 speech turnsColombia · 2012 · 79 sessions · 17,449 speech turnsColombia · 2013 · 70 sessions · 12,486 speech turnsColombia · 2014 · 67 sessions · 11,491 speech turnsColombia · 2015 · 70 sessions · 13,764 speech turnsColombia · 2016 · 81 sessions · 15,997 speech turnsColombia · 2017 · 78 sessions · 16,198 speech turnsColombia · 2018 · 67 sessions · 20,693 speech turnsColombia · 2019 · 77 sessions · 29,126 speech turnsColombia · 2020 · 79 sessions · 58,757 speech turnsColombia · 2021 · 85 sessions · 40,829 speech turnsColombia · 2022 · 59 sessions · 17,246 speech turnsColombia · 2023 · 69 sessions · 21,120 speech turnsColombia · 2024 · 91 sessions · 36,344 speech turnsColombia · 2025 · 82 sessions · 28,608 speech turns
Every year has a session, from 2000 to 2025.
Table
Colombia, Cámara de Representantes: from 2000 to 2025.
PeriodSessionsSpeech turns
2000437,453
2001101,789
2002184,914
2003256,712
2004429,722
20055011,392
20064910,296
20075612,983
20086815,334
20096613,467
20106113,109
20116615,922
20127917,449
20137012,486
20146711,491
20157013,764
20168115,997
20177816,198
20186720,693
20197729,126
20207958,757
20218540,829
20225917,246
20236921,120
20249136,344
20258228,608

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

Where it comes from

Gaceta del Congreso (plenary sessions of the Cámara de Representantes), Congreso de la República de Colombia, 2000-2025. Digital text, not scanned; in 675 files a broken CMap font encoding was recovered with a deterministic decoder. How it was transformed, step by step, is told in the process report that comes with the dataset.

Numbers

  • 1,608 sessions, in 26 of 26 years.With no speech turns, 1.
  • 464,805 rows; 463,201 are speech turns.
  • In 69.36% of those speech turns, we know which deputy is speaking; another 28.35% belong to those who cannot hold a seat. Not counting these or collective voices, 96.79%.

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. We assign it correctly for 97.43% of women and for 99.54% of men, measured together across eleven rosters—the lists of deputies—reviewed by hand. This is one of them.
View speech turns and women speakers
Colombia · Women's voice, in words
PeriodWordsSpeech turnsWomen speakers
2000–0911.63%1,290,717 / 11,094,35710.08%6,426 / 63,75211.11%36 / 324
2010–1912.95%2,001,260 / 15,457,9898.72%10,028 / 114,95516.85%78 / 463
2020–2521.08%2,682,435 / 12,724,20417.86%25,465 / 142,55121.79%78 / 358

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 three 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 483 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. DOI: 10.7910/DVN/TYYERX. 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-CO: Parliamentary Speeches from Colombia (2000-2025)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TYYERX, Harvard Dataverse, V2