Female Representation in Parliament

Data as of 2022

Proportion of women and men in Malaysian Parliament, covering both the House of Representatives (Dewan Rakyat) and the Senate (Dewan Negara).

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How is this data produced?

This dataset is compiled from official records of the Malaysian Parliament as of January 1st each year. The proportions of women and men are computed using the total number of filled seats as the denominator, meaning that vacancies are not included.

What caveats I should bear in mind when using this data?

The data reflects the composition of Parliament at the start of the year. Therefore, it does not capture any changes in composition that occur during the year. However, the proportions usually do not fluctuate significantly.

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Dataset description

Proportion of women and men in Malaysian Parliament, covering both the House of Representatives (Dewan Rakyat) and the Senate (Dewan Negara).

Variable definitions
  • Date
  • House of Parliament
  • Women
  • Men
Last updated:

01 Sept 2024, 12:00

Next update:

N/A

Data source(s)
  • Parliament of Malaysia
License

This data is made open under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). A copy of the license is available Here.

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Connect directly to the data with Python.

# If not already installed, do: pip install pandas fastparquet import pandas as pd URL_DATA = 'https://storage.data.gov.my/publicadmin/parliament_sex.parquet' df = pd.read_parquet(URL_DATA) if 'date' in df.columns: df['date'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date']) print(df)

Sample OpenAPI query

The following code is an example of how to make an API query to retrieve the data catalogue mentioned above. You can use different programming languages by switching the code accordingly. For a complete guide on possible query parameters and syntax, please refer to the official Open API Documentation.

import requests import pprint url = "https://api.data.gov.my/data-catalogue?id=parliament_sex&limit=3" response_json = requests.get(url=url).json() pprint.pprint(response_json)