Costa Rica

1. Search this plenary, from 1994 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.

The plenary of this chamber, turn by turn, according to its official record: Actas de la Sesión Plenaria.

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

Minutes of plenary sessions, Asamblea Legislativa de la República de Costa Rica, 1994-2025. Source format: .docx (embedded text, not scanned images). How it was transformed, step by step, is told in the process report that comes with the dataset.

• 5,343 sessions, in 32 of 32 years.
• 381,976 rows; 375,730 are speech turns.
• In 95.66% of those speech turns, we know which deputy is speaking; another 4.14% belong to those who cannot hold a seat. Not counting these or collective voices, 99.79%.

View how it is calculated

Words of women deputies for every hundred words of deputies of known sex, by decade. It measures voice, not seats.

This corpus declares four limitations, each one measured. They are in the dataset's "Known limitations" document, in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

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 655 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.