Cabinet ministers - 1990:2014

Last updated on Aug 31, 2021

Document History

Original Publish Date: 15 January, 2021

Updated on: 13 February, 2021

Data summary

This data set on cabinet minsters in India from the year 1990-2014 provides us information on their party, appointment duration, ministry, rank, gender, caste and reservations and dynast status. This data set has 1499 observations and 22 variables.

For more info on the data please refer to the codebook - codebook

Main variables in the data

##  [1] "year"              "ls_number"         "ac_id"            
##  [4] "name"              "party"             "gender"           
##  [7] "caste"             "portfolio"         "rank"             
## [10] "appointment_begin" "appointment_end"   "house"            
## [13] "constituency"      "pid"               "State"            
## [16] "start_source"      "end_source"        "comments"         
## [19] "type_begin"        "type_end"          "dyn"              
## [22] "comments.1"

Sample data

Distribution

All ministers*

The ministers are chosen from both Loksabha and Rajyasabha. This graphs shows us the distribution of the minsters with regards to the house across the years.

Dynasts

This bar plot shows us the proportion of dynast minsters from both the houses for each cabinet.

States

The following maps tell us the proportion of the minsters from each state.

In order to find the proportion of the ministers from each state, we created a variable named Minister to ac ratio which is the ratio of number of ministers from that state to the number of Parliamentary constituencies in that state. States in grey colour are the states which never had minsters during the period of 1990-2014.

Term & Duration

This table shows the number of minsters/number of terms,number of unique minsters, total term and average term per person/uniq person for both the dynast and non-dynast ministers.

Table 1: Term duration of minsters wrt identity
House	dynastast	N_ministers	uniq_ministers	Total term (months)	Average term per min	Average term per uniq_min
Lok Sabha	Dynast	402	137	8309.06	20.67	60.65
Lok Sabha	Non-dynast	655	256	13474.96	20.57	52.64
Rajya Sabha	Dynast	119	36	1724.47	14.49	47.90
Rajya Sabha	Non-dynast	280	103	5625.56	20.09	54.62

Rank

rank	dynast_percentage
CM	47.75
DM	26.67
MoS	23.58
MoS(IC)	26.52
PM	33.33

Portfolio

Top ministries

We have around 118 ministries now, we can reduce it further with some cleaning. Do we need a further analysis based on the ministries? this will enable us to address question like what kind of ministries do dynasts prefer . If so, we we can go ahead with further cleaning.

Eg: we can club coal/mine/petroleum to one natural resources category

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