Metadata for 60,925 legislative bills proposed during the 20th through 22nd Korean National Assembly (2016-2026).
Format
A data frame with 60,925 rows and 9 variables:
- bill_id
Unique bill identifier from the National Assembly system
- bill_no
Numeric bill number
- assembly
Assembly number (20, 21, or 22)
- bill_name
Full bill title in Korean
- committee
Standing committee to which the bill was referred
- propose_date
Date the bill was formally proposed
- result
Legislative outcome in Korean. Common values include passed as-is, expired at term end, and incorporated into alternative bill. See
table(bills$result)for all values.- proposer
Name of the lead (primary) proposer
- proposer_id
MONA_CD of the lead proposer (links to
legislators$member_id)
Details
The Korean National Assembly has seen a dramatic increase in bill proposals: the 21st Assembly produced 23,655 bills versus 21,594 in the 20th. Most bills expire at the end of the assembly term (term expiry); only about 5\
Use get_bill_texts() to download the full propose-reason texts
for text analysis, and get_proposers() for the complete
co-sponsorship records (769,773 rows).
Examples
data(bills)
# Bills per assembly
table(bills$assembly)
#>
#> 20 21 22
#> 21594 23655 15676
# Top 10 committees
sort(table(bills$committee), decreasing = TRUE)[1:10]
#>
#> 행정안전위원회 보건복지위원회
#> 8300 6255
#> 국토교통위원회 법제사법위원회
#> 5477 5306
#> 기획재정위원회 정무위원회
#> 4620 4516
#> 환경노동위원회 농림축산식품해양수산위원회
#> 4017 3794
#> 산업통상자원중소벤처기업위원회 교육위원회
#> 3295 2728
# Distribution of legislative outcomes
head(sort(table(bills$result), decreasing = TRUE))
#>
#> 임기만료폐기 대안반영폐기 수정가결 원안가결 철회
#> 30678 13692 2222 1048 578
#> 수정안반영폐기
#> 299