Swiss Policy Document Corpus for Biodiversity Analysis, 1999-2018
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Description
439,984 Swiss policy documents in German, French, and Italian from 1999 to 2018, compiled from parliamentary transcripts, federal legislation, and court decisions. This corpus was created by academic authors to replicate analyses for a 2022 paper on biodiversity integration in Swiss politics. Documents are annotated with metadata including policy sector, government branch, and publication year.
Use Cases
Analyzing longitudinal trends in biodiversity policy mentions based on the 20-year text corpus.
Comparing policy discourse across government branches (legislative, executive, judicial) based on the 'branch' and 'stage' metadata.
Conducting multilingual text analysis using the provided German, French, and Italian biodiversity dictionaries.
Studying policy sector integration of environmental issues based on the 'topic' labels linked to the Swiss Parliament's coding scheme.
Strengths
Corpus contains 439,984 documents, providing substantial scale for analysis.
Covers a 20-year time range (1999-2018) for longitudinal study.
Includes documents from three official Swiss languages (German, French, Italian) with corresponding dictionaries.
Documents are annotated with structured metadata like policy stage, branch, and sector.
Limitations
Row count for the main corpus file is known, but the size and structure of supporting files (e.g., dictionary CSVs) are unspecified.
Column-level documentation for the main corpus is provided, but detailed schema for all files may require inspection after download.
Last updated 2022-01-01 00:00:00; freshness should be verified for current research.
Provenance
Source
Swiss Parliament Web Services, Swiss Federal Archives (opendata.swiss), federal gazette (fedlex.admin.ch), and entscheidsuche.ch.
Collection Method
Compiled by academic authors between 2020-10-01 and 2021-01-31 from official public sources.
Time Range
1999 to 2018
Freshness
Last updated 2022-01-01 00:00:00
Geography
Switzerland
The content of the texts may not be changed according to the repository's terms. Use requires citation of the original 2022 paper and the listed source compilations.