Italian Parliamentary Attention to Women's Issues, 1996-2024

Italian parliamentary activities related to women's issues from the Chamber of Deputies between 1996 and 2024. The dataset is designed to study the attention paid by parliament and party groups to these issues over time. It was authored by Alice Cavalieri and last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the evolution of parliamentary attention to women's issues over time based on the 1996-2024 time range
• Studying which parliamentary party groups prioritize women's issues based on the PPG-level data
• Comparing the use of legislative versus non-legislative acts for representing specific population sectors
• Exploring the actual content of acts addressing women's issues for qualitative analysis

Strengths

• Covers a 28-year time range from 1996 to 2024
• Focuses on a specific policy domain (women's issues) within a single legislative chamber
• Includes both legislative and non-legislative parliamentary activities

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data is limited to the Italian Chamber of Deputies and may not reflect the full parliament

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official parliamentary records of the Italian Chamber of Deputies.

Time Range

1996 to 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-07 13:04:56

Geography

Italy