Roster of United States Congressional officeholders and biographical characteristics of members of the United States Congress, 1789-1984
Subtitle: merged data
By: principal investigator, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Series: ICPSR -- 7803; ICPSR (Series) -- 7803
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, [distributor
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Subjects: Biography; Registers; United States. Congress
Description: This dataset contains a separate record for each officeholder for each United States Congress in which a member has served, with 104 variables describing congressional service and selected biographical characteristics. It includes all the new members of the 99th Congress. There are data for approximately 11,000 individuals in this file, with each person identified by a unique five-digit number. The roughly 39,000 separate records are further identified by the Congress number and chamber/class. Service variables include political party affiliation, district, state and region represented, exact and cumulative dates of service in each Congress and each chamber, as well as total congressional service. Biographical variables include state and region of birth, education, military service, occupation, other political offices held, relatives who have also held congressional office, reason for leaving each Congress, and occupation and political offices held subsequent to service in Congress. Many of these particular variables are summarized in a collapsed variable. Most of the data were derived from merging two existing files--ICPSR's Roster of United States Congressional Officeholders, 1789-1979 and Carroll McKibbin's Biographical Characteristics of Members of the United States Congress, 1789-1978.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class I.

Chronological coverage: 1789-1984.

The Biographical Directory of the American Congress and ICPSR's United States Historical Election Returns, 1788-1979 are the primary sources for the data.

United States.

The Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress provided financial support and counsel for the creation of this merged dataset.

An OSIRIS codebook is available for use with the machine-readable dictionary.

Approximately 11,000 individuals, roughly 39,000 separate records; 18 variables.

Related files: Biographical characteristics of members of the United States Congress, 1789-1978 (ICPSR 7428).