Name: Congress Demographics
Creator: FiveThirtyEight
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

About this Dataset

Congress Demographics

Demographic information about members of the U.S. Congress, including age, generational cohort, and biographical identifiers.
Useful for studying representation and age composition in the legislative branch.

Tables

Demographic Data On Members Of Congress

@fivethirtyeight.congress_demographics.data_aging_congress

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CREATE TABLE data_aging_congress (
  "congress" BIGINT,
  "start_date" TIMESTAMP,
  "chamber" VARCHAR,
  "state_abbrev" VARCHAR,
  "party_code" BIGINT,
  "bioname" VARCHAR,
  "bioguide_id" VARCHAR,
  "birthday" TIMESTAMP,
  "cmltv_cong" BIGINT,
  "cmltv_chamber" BIGINT,
  "age_days" BIGINT,
  "age_years" DOUBLE,
  "generation" VARCHAR
);