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Download data on federal candidates' personal financial disclosures

Source: R/personal_finances.R
personal_finances.Rd

personal_finances() downloads and aggregates the data on federal candidates' personal financial disclosures. The function returns a data.frame where each observation corresponds to a candidate's property.

Usage

personal_finances(
  year,
  uf = "all",
  br_archive = FALSE,
  encoding = "latin1",
  temp = TRUE,
  readme_pdf = FALSE
)

Arguments

year

Election year. For this function, only the years 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022 and 2024 are available.

uf

Federation Unit acronym (character vector).

br_archive

In the TSE's data repository, some results can be obtained for the whole country by loading a single within a single file by setting this argument to TRUE (may not work in for some elections and, in other, it recovers only electoral data for presidential elections, absent in other files).

encoding

Data original encoding (defaults to 'Latin-1'). This can be changed to avoid errors when ascii = TRUE.

temp

(logical). If TRUE, keep the temporary compressed file for future use (recommended)

readme_pdf

original readme

Value

personal_finances() returns a data.frame.

Details

If export is set to TRUE, the downloaded data is saved as .dta and .sav files in the current directory.

Note

For the elections prior to 2000, some information may be incomplete.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
df <- personal_finances(2006)
} # }