Download data on local candidates' personal financial disclosures

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

Usage

personal_finances_local(year, uf = "all", encoding = "latin1", temp = TRUE)

Arguments

year

Election year. For this function, only the years 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 are available.

uf

Federation Unit acronym (character vector).

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)

Value

assets_candidate_local() 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_local(2000)
} # }