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Paraguay

Cámara de Diputados · 1988–2025

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  1. Search this plenary, from 1988 to 2025 (except 2001–2002, 2006–2007, 2011–2012), by text, date, party, legislature (the term each Record prints), and deputy.
  2. A session that you will not find: June 21, 2012. Impeachment trial of the president of the Republic: it falls within a declared gap.
  3. A session that you will not find: June 22, 2012. Removal of the president of the Republic: it falls within a declared gap.
  4. 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: Diario de Sesiones.

Paraguay · 2001–2002 · declared gapParaguay · 2006–2007 · declared gapParaguay · 2011–2012 · declared gapParaguay · 1988 · 1 sessions · 63 speech turnsParaguay · 1989 · 27 sessions · 5,542 speech turnsParaguay · 1990 · 66 sessions · 19,560 speech turnsParaguay · 1991 · 65 sessions · 19,241 speech turnsParaguay · 1992 · 70 sessions · 12,848 speech turnsParaguay · 1993 · 84 sessions · 16,686 speech turnsParaguay · 1994 · 90 sessions · 26,764 speech turnsParaguay · 1995 · 91 sessions · 30,675 speech turnsParaguay · 1996 · 76 sessions · 21,406 speech turnsParaguay · 1997 · 65 sessions · 18,365 speech turnsParaguay · 1998 · 51 sessions · 13,667 speech turnsParaguay · 1999 · 62 sessions · 15,498 speech turnsParaguay · 2000 · 40 sessions · 8,847 speech turnsParaguay · 2003 · 32 sessions · 8,898 speech turnsParaguay · 2004 · 55 sessions · 14,631 speech turnsParaguay · 2005 · 9 sessions · 2,747 speech turnsParaguay · 2008 · 39 sessions · 12,147 speech turnsParaguay · 2009 · 44 sessions · 16,428 speech turnsParaguay · 2010 · 4 sessions · 1,246 speech turnsParaguay · 2013 · 15 sessions · 5,093 speech turnsParaguay · 2014 · 14 sessions · 5,682 speech turnsParaguay · 2015 · 14 sessions · 4,133 speech turnsParaguay · 2016 · 8 sessions · 3,296 speech turnsParaguay · 2017 · 11 sessions · 3,174 speech turnsParaguay · 2018 · 47 sessions · 11,871 speech turnsParaguay · 2019 · 15 sessions · 4,505 speech turnsParaguay · 2020 · 28 sessions · 9,682 speech turnsParaguay · 2021 · 20 sessions · 5,417 speech turnsParaguay · 2022 · 24 sessions · 6,246 speech turnsParaguay · 2023 · 30 sessions · 11,467 speech turnsParaguay · 2024 · 30 sessions · 11,603 speech turnsParaguay · 2025 · 48 sessions · 12,773 speech turns
From 1988 to 2025, the years 2001–2002, 2006–2007, 2011–2012 are missing: the chamber's repository does not have them.
Table
Paraguay, Cámara de Diputados: from 1988 to 2025, with a declared gap in 2001–2002, 2006–2007, 2011–2012.
PeriodSessionsSpeech turns
1988163
1989275,542
19906619,560
19916519,241
19927012,848
19938416,686
19949026,764
19959130,675
19967621,406
19976518,365
19985113,667
19996215,498
2000408,847
2001–2002Paraguay · 2001–2002 · declared gap
2003328,898
20045514,631
200592,747
2006–2007Paraguay · 2006–2007 · declared gap
20083912,147
20094416,428
201041,246
2011–2012Paraguay · 2011–2012 · declared gap
2013155,093
2014145,682
2015144,133
201683,296
2017113,174
20184711,871
2019154,505
2020289,682
2021205,417
2022246,246
20233011,467
20243011,603
20254812,773

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

Where it comes from

Honorable Cámara de Diputados de Paraguay, Diario de Sesiones. https://www.diputados.gov.py/. Legislatures 1989-2025. PDF. How it was transformed, step by step, is told in the process report that comes with the dataset.

Numbers

  • 1,275 sessions, in 32 of 38 years.With no speech turns, 2.
  • 362,945 rows; 360,201 are speech turns.
  • In 76.59% of those speech turns, we know which deputy is speaking; another 18.44% belong to those who cannot hold a seat. Not counting these or collective voices, 93.91%.

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
Paraguay · Women's voice, in words
PeriodWordsSpeech turnsWomen speakers
1988–891.21%5,238 / 432,2380.44%20 / 4,5224.62%3 / 65
1990–992.01%277,502 / 13,802,2281.12%1,768 / 157,7992.94%7 / 238
2000–098.63%357,272 / 4,138,7885.70%2,411 / 42,3208.57%18 / 210
2010–1916.75%413,713 / 2,469,3048.32%2,246 / 26,99317.34%30 / 173
2020–2522.29%1,155,003 / 5,181,2148.96%3,947 / 44,06318.12%27 / 149

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 252 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; Martínez Osorio, Sofía Anabel. DOI: 10.7910/DVN/PDX8GA. Edition v2.0. License CC BY 4.0.

Identifiers are stable within an edition, not across editions.

How to cite

Rodrigues-Silveira, Rodrigo; Martínez Osorio, Sofía Anabel, 2026, "ParlaIbero-PY: Parliamentary Speeches from Paraguay (1988-2025)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PDX8GA, Harvard Dataverse, V2