Parliamentary question

A function for retrieving single parliamentary questions by id. For retrieving the whole debate over a question, the get_publication function has to be used

Usage

get_question(questionid = NA, good_manners = 0)

Arguments

questionid

Character string indicating the id of the session to request interpellations from

good_manners

Integer. Seconds delay between calls when making multiple calls to the same function

Value

A data.frame with the following variables:

response_date	Date of data retrieval
version	Data version from the API
justification	Justification for question
answ_by_id	Id for answering minister
answ_by_minister_id	Id for department of answering minister
answ_by_minister_title	Title for department of answering minister
answ_date	Date question was asked
answ_on_belhalf_of	Id of minister answered on behalf of, when relevant
answ_on_belhalf_of_minister_id	Id of department answered on behalf of, when relevant
answ_on_belhalf_of_minister_title	Title of department answered on behalf of, when relevant
agenda_number	Agenda number in meeting
moved_to	Date moved to
id	Question id
correct_person_id	Not documented in API
correct_person_minister_id	Not documented in API
correct_person_minister_title	Not documented in API
sendt_date	Date question was sent
session_id	Session id
question_text	Full question text
question_from_id	Id of MP asking the question
qustion_number	Question number
qustion_to_id	Id of minister the question was asked to
qustion_to_minister_id	Department id of minister the question was asked to
qustion_to_minister_title	Department title of minister the question was asked to
answer_text	Answer text (often empty)
title	Question title
type	Question type

See also

get_question_hour get_publication

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# An example of a possible workflow

## Retreive sessions
sessions <- get_parlsessions()

## Retreive all interpellations for a particular session
qsesh <- get_session_questions(sessions$id[9], q_type = "interpellasjoner")

## Retreve detailed information on all interpellations in that session
library(pbmcapply) # for progress bar. never use paralell on scraping
int1213 <- pbmclapply(qsesh$id, function(x){
    get_question(x, good_manners = 2)
}, mc.cores = 1)

quest1213 <- do.call(rbind, int1213)
} # }