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El Salvador

Asamblea Legislativa · 2018–2025

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  1. Search this plenary, from 2018 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.

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What it is

The plenary of this chamber, turn by turn, according to its official record: Versión taquigráfica.

El Salvador · 2018 · 26 sessions · 5,318 speech turnsEl Salvador · 2019 · 53 sessions · 7,827 speech turnsEl Salvador · 2020 · 72 sessions · 11,671 speech turnsEl Salvador · 2021 · 50 sessions · 6,637 speech turnsEl Salvador · 2022 · 59 sessions · 6,595 speech turnsEl Salvador · 2023 · 51 sessions · 5,028 speech turnsEl Salvador · 2024 · 57 sessions · 3,219 speech turnsEl Salvador · 2025 · 55 sessions · 2,359 speech turns
Every year has a session, from 2018 to 2025.
Table
El Salvador, Asamblea Legislativa: from 2018 to 2025.
PeriodSessionsSpeech turns
2018265,318
2019537,827
20207211,671
2021506,637
2022596,595
2023515,028
2024573,219
2025552,359

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

Where it comes from

Asamblea Legislativa de El Salvador, Historical Archive. https://www.asamblea.gob.sv/sesion-plenaria/historico-sesion. PDF. How it was transformed, step by step, is told in the process report that comes with the dataset.

Numbers

  • 423 sessions, in 8 of 8 years.
  • 49,077 rows; 48,654 are speech turns.
  • In 98.38% of those speech turns, we know which deputy is speaking; another 1.56% belong to those who cannot hold a seat. Not counting these or collective voices, 99.94%.

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
El Salvador · Women's voice, in words
PeriodWordsSpeech turnsWomen speakers
2018–1923.19%600,875 / 2,591,45216.28%2,108 / 12,94639.46%58 / 147
2020–2535.63%3,971,087 / 11,146,86520.30%7,090 / 34,91940.00%98 / 245

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 four 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 98 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/MUJU6A. 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-SV: Parliamentary Speeches from El Salvador (2018-2025)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MUJU6A, Harvard Dataverse, V2