table_name,type,name,description,comment
view_cabinet,text,country_name_short,three letter abbreviation of country -- iso alpha code,
view_cabinet,text,country_name,name of country,
view_cabinet,date,election_date,"Date the election took place. If the election lasted for several days, we code the last date.",
view_cabinet,date,start_date,start of cabinet defined as the date of the first event that determines a new cabinet,"For some (continuation) caretaker cabinet, the date is set to election date."
view_cabinet,text,cabinet_name,label/name of cabinet consisting of the family name of the prime minister and a roman numeral if he/she headed more than one cabinet (ascii characters only),
view_cabinet,binary,caretaker,"caretaker cabinet with a limited legislative mandate: non-partisan, provisional, technical or continuation (tree month rule) cabinet",
view_cabinet,binary,cabinet_party,cabinet member vs. opposition party,
view_cabinet,binary,prime_minister,indicates if the party fills the prime minster position,
view_cabinet,integer,seats,number of seats in parliament,"In versions prior to ParlGov 11/07, the number of seats was based on seats won at the last election (table 'election_result'). It does now take into account changes in parliament -- see documentation for table 'viewcalc_parliament_composition'."
view_cabinet,integer,election_seats_total,seats total in parliament,
view_cabinet,text,party_name_short,party abbreviation,
view_cabinet,text,party_name,original name of party with native characters (this field may require a change of character encodings on your local computer),
view_cabinet,text,party_name_english,English name of party,
view_cabinet,real,left_right,"0--10 scale mean value in left/right dimension with data from Castles/Mair 1983, Huber/Inglehart 1995, Benoit/Laver 2006 and CHES 2010",
view_cabinet,integer,country_id,ParlGov unique identifier for each country. Other tables refer to this variable as 'country_id'.,
view_cabinet,integer,election_id,ParlGov unique identifier for national and EP elections. Other tables refer to this variable as 'election_id'.,
view_cabinet,integer,cabinet_id,ParlGov unique identifier for each cabinet. Variable name 'id' in 'cabinet' table and 'cabinet_id' in all other tables.,
view_cabinet,integer,previous_cabinet_id,'cabinet_id' of previous national cabinet in the country,
view_cabinet,integer,party_id,ParlGov unique party identifier. Variable name 'id' in 'party' table and 'party_id' in all other tables.,