Ecuador

1. Search this plenary, from 1979 to 2025, by text, date, party, legislature (the term each Record prints), and deputy.
2. Open a session that you recognize: February 6, 1997. Congress removes the president of the Republic from office. That it is here does not validate its content.
3. Open a session that you recognize: April 20, 2005. Congress removes the president of the Republic from office. That it is here does not validate its content.
4. 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.

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

Minutes and debate records of the Congreso Nacional and the Asamblea Nacional of Ecuador, from 1979-07-23, when Congress was installed after the return to democracy. Includes the 2007-2008 Constituent Assembly, distinguished by the AC prefix in its session identifier because its numbering overlaps with that of Congress. The sources are scanned PDFs with no text layer and of very uneven quality: the older volumes are typewritten and microfilmed. How it was transformed, step by step, is told in the process report that comes with the dataset.

• 6,105 sessions, in 47 of 47 years.
• 1,292,596 rows; 1,280,822 are speech turns.
• In 68.76% of those speech turns, we know which deputy is speaking; another 27.46% belong to those who cannot hold a seat. Not counting these or collective voices, 94.78%.

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 six 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 1.1 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.