piracy

Anti-Piracy Legislation

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Overview

This data set contains observations on US Senators and Representatives related to their support of anti-piracy legislation that was introduced at the end of 2011.

Variables

  • name: Name of legislator.
  • party: Party affiliation as democrat (D), Republican (R), or Independent (I).
  • state: Two letter state abbreviation.
  • money_pro: Amount of money in dollars contributed to the legislator's campaign in 2010 by groups generally thought to be supportive of PIPA/SOPA: movie and TV studios, record labels.
  • money_con: Amount of money in dollars contributed to the legislator's campaign in 2010 by groups generally thought to be opposed to PIPA/SOPA: computer and internet companies.
  • years: Number of years of service in Congress.
  • stance: Degree of support for PIPA/SOPA with levels: Leaning No, No, Undecided, Unknown, Yes.
  • chamber: Whether the legislator is a member of either the house or senate.

Data Source

ProPublica, also available in the OIdata R package.

Loading Data

CSV Download

To access the data in R, type

download.file("http://www.openintro.org/books/statdata/piracy.RData",
              destfile = "piracy.RData")
load("piracy.RData")

To access the data in SAS, type

filename piracy url 'http://www.openintro.org/books/statdata/piracy.csv'