Members and Destinations of Spain’s Judiciary (2005-2023)
Data Documentation
Introduction
This document contains the documentation of the dataset Members and Destinations of Spain’s Judiciary (2005-2023), created at the University of Barcelona. The work is part of the I+D+i project PREFJUDIPOL: Preferences, career, and territory. The politics of judicial inequality in Spain (PID-2020-113871RB-I00), funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/.
The data have been used to produce the following paper:
- Vallbé, Joan-Josep and Ramírez-Folch, Carmen and Lozano, Luis Mario, Glass ceiling or merit? The politics of judicial promotion in a civil law system (July 26, 2024). Pre-print version available at SSRN.
Please contact the authors for any enquiries or doubts.
Data Description
- Source of data: Escalafones de la carrera judicial (official ranking of the judiciary), published by the Boletín Oficial del Estado (Official Gazette)
- Number of observations: 58,723
- Number of variables: 24
- Format: CSV
Variable codes
| Variable | Description |
|---|---|
| category | Juez, Magistrado, Magistrado del TS |
| judge_id | Unique judge ID |
| destination | Name of the court in which a judge currently works |
| region | Name of the region where the court is located (NUTS 2) |
| province | Name of the province where the court is located (NUTS 3) |
| municipality | Name of the municipality where the court is located |
| type_of_court | TS = Tribunal Supremo, TSJ = Tribunal Superior de Justicia, AP = Audiencia Provincial, AN = Audiencia Nacional, J-1I = Juzgado de primera instancia, JC-I = Juzgado central de instrucción, J-I = Juzgado de instrucción, APOYO = apoyo, RCC = Registro Civil Central, J-P = Juzgado de lo penal, J-S = Juzgado de lo social, J-VP = Juzgado de vigilancia penitenciaria, J-VM = Juzgado de violencia sobre la mujer, J-CA = Juzgado contencioso-administrativo, JC-P = Juzgado central penal, J-MEN = Juzgado de menores, RC = Registro Civil, DECANATO = Decanato, J-1II = Juzgado de primera instancia e instrucción, JC-CA = Juzgado central contencioso-administrativo, J-MER = Juzgado de lo mercantil, JC-MEN = Juzgado central de menores, ADS = Adscripción, CGPJ = Consejo General del Poder Judicial |
| court_level | 1 = J-1I; J-I; J-P; J-S; J-VP; J-VM; J-CA; J-MEN; JC-CA; J-MER 2 = AP 3 = TSJ; AN; JC-I; JC-P; JC-MEN 4 = TS |
| jurisdiction | Area of jurisdiction |
| gender | Judge gender |
| ranking_date | Date of observation of official ranking |
| inactive | Whether judge is actively working in the judiciary (0 = active, 1 = inactive) |
| age | Age of judge |
| seniority_career | Number of years in the judiciary |
| seniority_category | Number of years in the category |
| civil | Judge is specialist in civil jurisdiction |
| criminal | Judge is specialist in criminal jurisdiction |
| administrative | Judge is specialist in administrative jurisdiction |
| labor | Judge is specialist in labor jurisdiction |
| commercial | Judge is specialist in commercial jurisdiction |
| minors | Judge is specialist in minors jurisdiction |
| collegiate | Whether court is a collegiate body (=1) or a single-judge court (=0) |
| promotion | Whether judge has been promoted in that observation (=1) |
| promotion_level | To what court level judge has promoted (see court_level) |