Paraguay
Cámara de Diputados · 1988–2025
Today you can
- 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.
- A session that you will not find: June 21, 2012. Impeachment trial of the president of the Republic: it falls within a declared gap.
- A session that you will not find: June 22, 2012. Removal of the president of the Republic: it falls within a declared gap.
- 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.
Table
| Period | Sessions | Speech turns |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 1 | 63 |
| 1989 | 27 | 5,542 |
| 1990 | 66 | 19,560 |
| 1991 | 65 | 19,241 |
| 1992 | 70 | 12,848 |
| 1993 | 84 | 16,686 |
| 1994 | 90 | 26,764 |
| 1995 | 91 | 30,675 |
| 1996 | 76 | 21,406 |
| 1997 | 65 | 18,365 |
| 1998 | 51 | 13,667 |
| 1999 | 62 | 15,498 |
| 2000 | 40 | 8,847 |
| 2001–2002 | Paraguay · 2001–2002 · declared gap | |
| 2003 | 32 | 8,898 |
| 2004 | 55 | 14,631 |
| 2005 | 9 | 2,747 |
| 2006–2007 | Paraguay · 2006–2007 · declared gap | |
| 2008 | 39 | 12,147 |
| 2009 | 44 | 16,428 |
| 2010 | 4 | 1,246 |
| 2011–2012 | Paraguay · 2011–2012 · declared gap | |
| 2013 | 15 | 5,093 |
| 2014 | 14 | 5,682 |
| 2015 | 14 | 4,133 |
| 2016 | 8 | 3,296 |
| 2017 | 11 | 3,174 |
| 2018 | 47 | 11,871 |
| 2019 | 15 | 4,505 |
| 2020 | 28 | 9,682 |
| 2021 | 20 | 5,417 |
| 2022 | 24 | 6,246 |
| 2023 | 30 | 11,467 |
| 2024 | 30 | 11,603 |
| 2025 | 48 | 12,773 |
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%.
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.
View speech turns and women speakers
| Period | Words | Speech turns | Women speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988–89 | 1.21%5,238 / 432,238 | 0.44%20 / 4,522 | 4.62%3 / 65 |
| 1990–99 | 2.01%277,502 / 13,802,228 | 1.12%1,768 / 157,799 | 2.94%7 / 238 |
| 2000–09 | 8.63%357,272 / 4,138,788 | 5.70%2,411 / 42,320 | 8.57%18 / 210 |
| 2010–19 | 16.75%413,713 / 2,469,304 | 8.32%2,246 / 26,993 | 17.34%30 / 173 |
| 2020–25 | 22.29%1,155,003 / 5,181,214 | 8.96%3,947 / 44,063 | 18.12%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