The Swedish Parliament Corpus 1867 - 2022

Väinö Aleksi Yrjänäinen, Fredrik Mohammadi Norén, Robert Borges, Johan Jarlbrink, Lotta Åberg Brorsson, Anders P. Olsson, Pelle Snickars, Måns Magnusson

Abstract: The Swedish parliamentary records are an important source material for social science and humanities researchers. We introduce a new research corpus, the Swedish Parliament Corpus, which is larger and more developed than previously available research corpora for the Swedish parliament. The corpus contains annotated and structured parliamentary records over more than 150 years, through the bicameral parliament (1867–1970) and the unicameral parliament (1971–). In addition to the records, which contain all speeches in the parliament, we also provide a database of all members of parliament over the same period. Along with the corpus, we describe procedures to ensure data quality. The corpus facilitates detailed analysis of parliamentary speeches in several research fields.