Re: [datameet] Re: Voting records for state high courts or supreme court decisions

2020-10-05 Thread Eduardo Campillo Betancourt
Hi Peter, Thank you for your help! I will look into this. Best, Eduardo El oct. 5, 2020 12:25 AM -0500, pmay...@gmail.com , escribió: > Hi Eduardo, > I think you can find them at: https://ecourts.gov.in/ecourts_home/ > I've only used these records to look at individual district court criminal

[datameet] Voting records for state high courts or supreme court decisions

2020-10-04 Thread Eduardo Campillo Betancourt
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone has seen available records of supreme court or state high court decisions. Ideally, I would like to see how each judge voted in a case. Thank you in advance! Best, Eduardo -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us

Re: [datameet] Data on voting/opinions of the members of State Legislative Assemblies

2020-09-30 Thread Eduardo Campillo Betancourt
bers present voted along party lines. > > You can cross reference these two things and get the data you need. > > Hope this helps, > > > > On Sep 28, 2020, at 20:13, Eduardo Campillo Betancourt > > wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I am looking for any

Re: [datameet] Re: Data in English on discussions in State Assemblies

2020-09-30 Thread Eduardo Campillo Betancourt
That makes sense. Thank you, Peter, I will look into that as a source of data! Sincerely, Eduardo Campillo Betancourt Ph.D. Student in Economics Northwestern University B.A. in Economics NYU Abu Dhabi, Class of 2017 Cellphone: +1(312)874-1778 (US) Alternative email: ec2...@nyu.edu El sep. 29

Re: [datameet] Data on voting/opinions of the members of State Legislative Assemblies

2020-09-30 Thread Eduardo Campillo Betancourt
Hi Kishore, I guess there might not be many instances but maybe I could use absenteeism as a potential proxy for wanting to vote against the party. Thank you for this information, it is very useful! Best, Eduardo El sep. 29, 2020 6:35 AM -0500, datameet@googlegroups.com, escribió: > > Kishore

Re: [datameet] Data on voting/opinions of the members of State Legislative Assemblies

2020-10-01 Thread Eduardo Campillo Betancourt
if a whip > > > > has been issued (which in most cases will be true), you can be 100% > > > > sure that all members present voted along party lines. > > > > > > > > You can cross reference these two things and get the data you need. > > > > > > > >

Re: [datameet] Re: Data in English on discussions in State Assemblies

2020-10-01 Thread Eduardo Campillo Betancourt
Thank you very much! Sincerely, Eduardo Campillo Betancourt Ph.D. Student in Economics Northwestern University B.A. in Economics NYU Abu Dhabi, Class of 2017 Cellphone: +1(312)874-1778 (US) Alternative email: ec2...@nyu.edu El sep. 30, 2020 11:41 PM -0500, Saba Mundlay , escribió: > You co

[datameet] Data in English on discussions in State Assemblies

2020-09-28 Thread Eduardo Campillo Betancourt
Hello, I have found that there is no record of voting by MLA since most votes are done by voice. However, is there any proxy you have found such as using transcripts of meetings where specific laws/motions were discussed? Are such transcripts available in English by any chance, even if it is

[datameet] Data on voting/opinions of the members of State Legislative Assemblies

2020-09-28 Thread Eduardo Campillo Betancourt
Hello, I am looking for any data on how people in state assemblies voted on specific bills or laws. I have found that roll call voting does not happen in India and that there might not be data on how specific members of the legislative assemblies voted. However, are you aware of any potential

[datameet] District-level historical census data

2020-11-13 Thread Eduardo Campillo Betancourt
Hi all, I am aware that the last three censuses are availiable online even at the village/town level for most questions but what about for the previous censuses? Are you aware of census data being digitized at least at the district level? Most important to me is get the distribution by

[datameet] Re: District-level historical census data

2020-11-17 Thread Eduardo Campillo Betancourt
Hi Peter, This is awesome, thank you!! Also thank you for the notes on using R for SAS, I had previously gone the very painful route of doing it through Stata for US survey files. On Sunday, November 15, 2020 at 4:05:01 AM UTC-6 pmay...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Eduardo, > > Reeve Vanneman at the

[datameet] Trouble reading Indian Districts Database's files

2021-01-31 Thread Eduardo Campillo Betancourt
Hi all, Have any of you successfully read the .data files in the Indian Districts Database (http://vanneman.umd.edu/districts/files/index.html)? I tried reading them in R as ASCII and elsewhere as text files or tab separated files and all I got was a single column of about 150K rows with what

Re: [datameet] Trouble reading Indian Districts Database's files

2021-02-03 Thread Eduardo Campillo Betancourt
; or you can also post > them to a public server and post a link here. > > best, > Dilawar > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 2:40 AM Eduardo Campillo Betancourt < > eduardoca...@u.northwestern.edu> wrote: > >> >> Hi Dilawar, >> >> Thank you so much!

Re: [datameet] Trouble reading Indian Districts Database's files

2021-02-02 Thread Eduardo Campillo Betancourt
gt; -- >> Dilawar Singh, Ph.D. >> LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/dilawar-singh-ph-d-44b81b194/> >> ORCID <https://orcid.org/-0002-4645-3211> Github >> <https://github.com/dilawar> >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 8:40 AM Eduardo

Re: [datameet] Trouble reading Indian Districts Database's files

2021-02-02 Thread Eduardo Campillo Betancourt
- >> Dilawar Singh, Ph.D. >> LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/dilawar-singh-ph-d-44b81b194/> >> ORCID <https://orcid.org/-0002-4645-3211> Github >> <https://github.com/dilawar> >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 8:40 AM Eduardo

[datameet] Re: Transparent Chennai website is down for good

2021-08-17 Thread Eduardo Campillo Betancourt
Hi Vaishnavi, Have you tried getting the data through wayback machine? I can see here that someone took a snapshot of the website in 2018 and it looks probably like the one you were looking for. With any luck the datasets are also saved there. Here's the link to the 2018 snapshot, you can also

[datameet] District-level government expenditure on SC welfare programs

2021-09-22 Thread Eduardo Campillo Betancourt
Hi, I am trying to get data on government budgets and/or expenditure at the district level. Especially, I am interested in the amount allocated to SC/ST welfare programs. I know similar data exists at the state level and it is what Economist Rohini Pande uses in her 2003 paper titled "Can

[datameet] Measuring BJP propaganda/advertising

2021-11-08 Thread Eduardo Campillo Betancourt
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone had good ideas on how to get data on being exposed to more BJP propaganda or advertising during elections. Is there perhaps data on advertising expenditures by locality or distribution of important local headquarters that predict a higher exposure to

[datameet] NIC crosswalks

2021-07-20 Thread Eduardo Campillo Betancourt
Hi all, Has anyone compiled crosswalks for the NIC codes across the NSS waves. I'm using the "thick" rounds (38, 43, 50, 55, 61, 66) so that goes through NIC 1970, NIC 1987, NIC 1998, and NIC 2004. Someone else had posted here

[datameet] Details on allocation of reserved SC seats in UP GPs

2022-03-23 Thread Eduardo Campillo Betancourt
Hi all, I was wondering if someone could clarify/share with me a source on the details of the allocation of GP Pradhan seats to SC reservation. I have seen that the system after 2021 changed to one where a rotation was put in place but I haven't been able to find out the details of it and the

[datameet] Election results for UP Gram Panchayats

2022-01-07 Thread Eduardo Campillo Betancourt
Hi all, Happy New Year! I was wondering if anyone had seen the election results for UP Gram Panchayats (either for the last election or the previous one). The main things I need are the vote shares of the winner and runner-up and their political parties. If the names of the candidates are