# Data: Delegations to UNFCCC meetings
Version: February 2021

The main results are two files contains two files: `complete_dataset.csv` (or `complete_dataset_experience.csv` if the experience has been extracted) that contains the entire dataset of participants to UNFCCC meetings and `experience_dict.txt` that contains more precise information about the experience.

### complete_dataset_experience.csv
This version contains all data extracted up to the COP 25 meeting. The data is extracted from the official UNFCCC lists of participants. For each participant, there are the following features:
- `meeting`: Label of the UNFCCC meeting in question. SB stands for Subsidiary Bodies, COP stands for Conference of the Parties.
- `affiliation_category`: In which category of affiliation the participant is listed. Options are _Parties_, _Observer States_, _United Nations Secretariat units and bodies_, _Specialized agencies and related organizations_, _Intergovernmental organizations_ and _Non-governmental organizations_.
- `affiliation`: The party or organization whose delegation the participant is part of.
- `name`: Name of the participant, which may be incomplete when the name is too long.
- `description`: Additional information provided for some participants.
- `gender`: The participant is indicated as male (m) or female (f).
- `has_title`: Some participants have a title, such as "H.E." or "Dr.".
- `role`: We attribute roles to participants according to keywords in their description. Possibilities: _Security_, _Diplomacy_, _Government_, _Press_, _Universities_.
- `fossil_fuel_industry`: 1 if the participants has keywords in description or affiliation that indicate an association to the fossil fuel industry, 0 otherwise.
- `experience cop`: number of previously visited COP meetings.
- `experience sb`: number of previously visited SB meetings.
- `experience party`: number of previously visited meetings in a party.
- `experience not_party`: number of previously visited meetings as part of a non-party delegation.
- `experience possible error`: 1 if for the name of this participant, for at least one meeting there has been two occurrences of this name, which indicates that the numbers on experience are incorrect. If this is 0, the numbers for experience are correct.

Note: `complete_dataset.csv`contains the same just without all the experience features.


### experience.txt
This file is encoded in utf-8 and formatted as JSON. It contains for each name the different occurrences across all processed meetings. The format is the following:

{_name1_ : [_occurrence1_, _occurrence2_, ...], _name2_: ...}

and an occurrence is of the form:

[_meeting_, _exact name_, _affiliation_, _affiliation category_]

### Other data
The folders `participants-txt` and `participants-csv` contain meeting-specific, intermediate results that are created before the complete dataset.