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Mexico

Cámara de Diputados · 1988–2025

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  1. Search this plenary, from 1988 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: Diario de los Debates.

Mexico · 1988 · 40 sessions · 11,078 speech turnsMexico · 1989 · 78 sessions · 9,890 speech turnsMexico · 1990 · 32 sessions · 5,079 speech turnsMexico · 1991 · 3 sessions · 4,584 speech turnsMexico · 1992 · 3 sessions · 468 speech turnsMexico · 1993 · 11 sessions · 1,606 speech turnsMexico · 1994 · 33 sessions · 3,555 speech turnsMexico · 1995 · 91 sessions · 10,344 speech turnsMexico · 1996 · 82 sessions · 8,100 speech turnsMexico · 1997 · 72 sessions · 9,815 speech turnsMexico · 1998 · 69 sessions · 8,491 speech turnsMexico · 1999 · 65 sessions · 8,650 speech turnsMexico · 2000 · 60 sessions · 10,722 speech turnsMexico · 2001 · 72 sessions · 11,696 speech turnsMexico · 2002 · 69 sessions · 15,337 speech turnsMexico · 2003 · 71 sessions · 12,177 speech turnsMexico · 2004 · 63 sessions · 14,458 speech turnsMexico · 2005 · 73 sessions · 13,858 speech turnsMexico · 2006 · 74 sessions · 16,577 speech turnsMexico · 2007 · 71 sessions · 18,425 speech turnsMexico · 2008 · 67 sessions · 17,579 speech turnsMexico · 2009 · 71 sessions · 20,230 speech turnsMexico · 2010 · 79 sessions · 27,099 speech turnsMexico · 2011 · 76 sessions · 28,132 speech turnsMexico · 2012 · 79 sessions · 21,242 speech turnsMexico · 2013 · 83 sessions · 22,110 speech turnsMexico · 2014 · 90 sessions · 21,636 speech turnsMexico · 2015 · 72 sessions · 19,251 speech turnsMexico · 2016 · 79 sessions · 19,842 speech turnsMexico · 2017 · 72 sessions · 17,977 speech turnsMexico · 2018 · 77 sessions · 23,632 speech turnsMexico · 2019 · 86 sessions · 30,915 speech turnsMexico · 2020 · 64 sessions · 22,367 speech turnsMexico · 2021 · 76 sessions · 34,504 speech turnsMexico · 2022 · 78 sessions · 35,191 speech turnsMexico · 2023 · 82 sessions · 30,397 speech turnsMexico · 2024 · 74 sessions · 23,340 speech turnsMexico · 2025 · 100 sessions · 20,583 speech turns
Every year has a session, from 1988 to 2025.
Table
Mexico, Cámara de Diputados: from 1988 to 2025.
PeriodSessionsSpeech turns
19884011,078
1989789,890
1990325,079
199134,584
19923468
1993111,606
1994333,555
19959110,344
1996828,100
1997729,815
1998698,491
1999658,650
20006010,722
20017211,696
20026915,337
20037112,177
20046314,458
20057313,858
20067416,577
20077118,425
20086717,579
20097120,230
20107927,099
20117628,132
20127921,242
20138322,110
20149021,636
20157219,251
20167919,842
20177217,977
20187723,632
20198630,915
20206422,367
20217634,504
20227835,191
20238230,397
20247423,340
202510020,583

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

Where it comes from

Diario de los Debates, Cámara de Diputados del Congreso de la Unión (Mexico). https://cronica.diputados.gob.mx/. Legislatures LIV-LXVI (1988-2025). HTML (ISO-8859-1 encoding) with embedded text; no OCR. How it was transformed, step by step, is told in the process report that comes with the dataset.

Numbers

  • 2,537 sessions, in 38 of 38 years.With no speech turns, 5.
  • 633,474 rows; 630,937 are speech turns.
  • In 96.18% of those speech turns, we know which deputy is speaking; another 2.07% belong to those who cannot hold a seat. Not counting these or collective voices, 98.21%.

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
Mexico · Women's voice, in words
PeriodWordsSpeech turnsWomen speakers
1988–8914.31%812,894 / 5,682,37411.26%1,875 / 16,65212.09%48 / 397
1990–9917.37%3,820,131 / 21,994,32616.59%8,939 / 53,86814.89%214 / 1,437
2000–0937.46%28,492,280 / 76,070,20933.10%47,977 / 144,96024.87%565 / 2,272
2010–1950.94%43,060,198 / 84,533,98837.16%84,518 / 227,47440.87%945 / 2,312
2020–2564.91%21,187,802 / 32,642,73063.96%104,812 / 163,86749.29%734 / 1,489

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 1.5 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/0IS1YE. 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-MX: Parliamentary Speeches from Mexico (1988-2025)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0IS1YE, Harvard Dataverse, V2