Data map for hst0137.dat Housing standing committees, 1st - 37th Congress Date: Feb. 13, 1998 (data last corrected Apr. 28, 1995) Var. Description Column(s) CONG Congress 1-2 SESSION Session 3 Note: Sessions coded "9" indicate assignments to committees whose membership was designated in the rules to span an entire Congress. All other committee assignments were for the particular session only. COMM Committee 4-6 Note: See below for committee code ID ICPSR identification number 7-11 NAME Name 12-36 PTYSTAT Party status 37 This variable distinguishes between original appointees to committees and those appointed during a Congress or session to fill a vacancy. The codes are as follows: 1: Original appointee 4: Additional member (expanded committee roster) 6: Replacement RANK Rank of member within party status 38-39 For this data set, this is the order on the committee list specified in the appointment resolution. MOA Month appointed 40-41 DAA Day appointed 42-43 YEA Year appointed 44-47 Note: The three preceding variables together record the date on which the member was appointed to the committee. MOT Month terminated 48-49 DAT Day terminated 50-51 YET Year terminated 52-55 Note: The three preceding variables together record the dat on which the member was termined from the committee. This is usually the end of the session, unless the member vacated the committee assignment before then. PARTY Party 56-59 Political party, from Kenneth Martis, _Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress, 1789--1989_. COMMITTEE CODES: Code First Cong. Last Cong. Committee 1 8 37 Accounts 2 16 37 Agriculture 23 3 37 Claims 25 16 37 Commerce 26 4 15 Commerce and Manufactures 31 10 37 District of Columbia 45 1 37 Elections 49 28 36 Engraving 50 36 37 Enrolled Bills 54 37 37 Exp., Interior 57 14 37 Expend., Navy 58 14 37 Expend., P.O. 59 14 37 Expend., State 60 14 37 Expend., Treasury 61 14 37 Expend., War 63 14 37 Expend., Public Buildings 72 17 37 Foreign Affairs 102 17 37 Indian Affairs 111 22 37 Invalid Pensions 121 13 37 Judiciary 133 36 37 Library 141 16 37 Manufactures 144 25 37 Mileage 145 17 37 Military Affairs 146 19 21 Military Pensions 147 24 37 Militia 151 17 37 Naval Affairs 161 36 37 Pacific Railroad 162 25 37 Patents 164 13 19 Pensions and Revolutionary Claims 166 10 37 Post Offices and Post Roads 167 36 37 Printing 168 14 37 Private Land Claims 169 25 37 Public Buildings and Grounds 170 13 37 Public Expenditures 171 9 37 Public Lands 183 4 37 Revisal and Unfinished Business 185 19 37 Revolutionary Claims 186 22 37 Revolutionary Pensions 189 22 37 Roads and Canals 190 31 37 Rules 211 19 37 Territories 242 4 37 Ways and Means