Brazilian Political Elites Database: 700 Politicians' Socioeconomic Backgrounds

The Elites 2025 Project maps the class links of primary Brazilian politicians. It analyzes 702 political positions, covering 700 politicians holding office on 01/07/2025, using data from electoral courts, legislative houses, Federal Revenue, and original prosopographical collection. Mateus C. M de Albuquerque compiled the database, which includes a codebook and source documentation.

Use Cases

• Analyze socioeconomic stratification within the political class based on educational and marital background data.
• Study correlations between political positions and asset holdings using Federal Revenue data.
• Map associational networks among politicians based on collected background variables.

Strengths

• Covers 700 politicians across 702 high-level positions, including President, governors, mayors, senators, and federal deputies.
• Integrates data from multiple official sources: electoral courts, legislative houses, and Federal Revenue.
• Includes extensive raw material documenting the source for every variable.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the single snapshot date of 01/07/2025.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse, author Mateus C. M de Albuquerque.

Collection Method

Combines administrative databases with original prosopographical data collection.

Time Range

Snapshot of politicians in office on 01/07/2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 18:50:05; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Brazil.