MEP Directory Metadata

General informations
Term	Value	
Title	MEP Directory	
Variable Count	18	
Description	Database containing socio-demographic informations about MEP’s and their carreer paths in EP. Data were scraped from the EP website.	
Identifier	mep.directory.092019.[6AA93195]	
Version	1.0.0	
Format	Comma-separated values (.csv) | Separator : semi-colon | Encoding : « UTF-8 »	
Time coverage	1979-2019	
Documentation
Term	Value	
Source	https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/directory	
Legal notice	https://www.europarl.europa.eu/legal-notice/en/	

Contacts
Term	Value	Additional detail	
Creator	Sébastien Michon	s.michon@unistra.fr 	
Contributor	Eric Wiest	e.wiest@unistra.fr	

MEP Directory Schema

parliamentary_id – Parliamentary ID
Type	Numeric (Integer)	
Description	MEP’s unique and lifetime identifier provided by the EP.	

nationalty - Nationalty
Type	Text	
Description	MEP's nationalty.	

gender - Gender
Type	Code	
Description	MEP's gender.	

Code	Category	
F	Female	
M	Male	
birth_year - Birth Year
Type	Numeric (Integer)	
Description	MEP's birth year (4 digits). Day and month of birth have been stripped for GPDR compliance.	

birth_place - Birthplace
Type	Text	
Description	MEP's birthplace. Clarifications in brackets when available.	
Missing cases	8	

political_groups - Political Groups
Type	Text	
Description	MEP's membership history to political groups.	

national_parties - National Parties
Type	Text	
Description	MEP's membership history to national parties.	

chair - Chair
Type	Text	
Description	MEP's responsabilities history as a chair in EP.	

acting_president - Acting President
Type	Text	
Description	MEP's responsabilities history as an acting President in EP.	

co_president - Co-President
Type	Text	
Description	MEP's responsabilities history as a co-President.in EP.	

vice_chair - Vice-Chair
Type	Text	
Description	MEP's responsabilities history as a vice-Chair in EP.	
vice_president - Vice-President
Type	Text	
Description	MEP's responsabilities history as a vice-President in EP.	

quaestor - Quaestor
Type	Text	
Description	MEP's responsabilities history as a quaestor in EP.	

member - Member
Type	Text	
Description	MEP's responsabilities history as a member in EP.	

substitute - Substitute
Type	Text	
Description	MEP's responsabilities history as a substitute in EP.	

observer - Observer
Type	Text	
Description	MEP's responsabilities history as an observer in EP.	

substitute_observer - Substitute Observer
Type	Text	
Description	MEP's responsabilities history as a substitute observer in EP.	

president - President
Type	Text	
Description	MEP's responsabilities history as a President in EP.