Media Mentions of Elite New Zealand Athletes

Provides data about every New Zealand athlete who has competed in the Olympic Games and the Commonwealth Games. The data was collected from the New Zealand Olympic Committee website and combined with media mentions found within an archive of New Zealand media articles maintained by data science consultancy DOT loves data.

This dataset supports the conference paper, "Gender bias and the New Zealand media's reporting of elite athletes" (MathSport 2018).

Includes the following variables:

• Athlete Name (athlete_name)
• Source URL (source_url)
• Gender (gender)
• Sport (sport)
• Birth Date (birthdate)
• Number of Elite Games Attended (n_games_attended)
• Number of Gold Medals Won (n_gold_medals)
• Number of Silver Medals Won (n_silver_medals)
• Number of Bronze Medals Won (n_bronze_medals)
• Total Number of Medals Won (n_medals)
• Number of Media Mentions (n_media_mentions)

Note: the Sport variable is a variable-length list that is delimited by three spaces ("   ")