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Mexican access-to-information requests

ati.Rd

Three hundred requests filed through Mexico's INFOMEX transparency system, drawn from a corpus Erlich et al. hand-coded with six Mexico City research assistants over ten weeks. Their codings are not shipped here. What ships is the request text and the four fields that trace one back to its source, which is what a run with no training data needs. The coded variables are in the replication materials named under @source, but the codebook was never published and the supplemental material names them without saying how they were defined, so what arrives is column names. The requests are in Spanish and run from a single word to 588, median 42.

Usage

ati

Format

A tibble with 300 rows and 5 columns.

  • id is the row identifier from the source data.

  • folio is the INFOMEX request number, which traces back to the source.

  • date is the date of the request.

  • dependency is the agency the request was filed with.

  • text is the request as filed, in Spanish.

Source

Erlich, A., S. G. Dantas, B. E. Bagozzi, D. Berliner, and B. Palmer-Rubin. 2022. Multi-label Prediction for Political Text-as-Data. Political Analysis 30(4), 463–480. doi:10.1017/pan.2021.15

Replication data at doi:10.7910/DVN/SOVPA4 , released under CC0 1.0. Sampled with seed 444. The underlying requests are published by Mexico's federal transparency system.

The text

text is what the requester typed. Commas were stripped when the source was written to CSV, which is not recoverable and shows as double spaces.

Examples

data(ati)