Document History

Original Publish Date: 26 June, 2020

Updated on: 21 April, 2021

Data summary

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Main variables

##  [1] "fund_own"            "fund_party"          "fund_donations"     
##  [4] "fund_missing"        "fund_tot_calc"       "fund_tot_given"     
##  [7] "exp_meetings"        "exp_media"           "exp_materials"      
## [10] "exp_vehicles_travel" "exp_workers"         "exp_misc"           
## [13] "exp_tot_calc"        "exp_tot_given"       "links"              
## [16] "Sno"                 "Candidate"           "Constituency"       
## [19] "Party"               "constituency_no"     "year"               
## [22] "exp_missing"

Observations

year n_obs
2012 311
2017 214

dynasts

year dyn_cum_text n_obs
2012 Family 83
2012 Non-family 320
2017 Family 76
2017 Non-family 327

Missing observations - obs that is zero

year zero_fund_own zero_fund_party zero_fund_donations
2012 246 267 228
2017 13 58 47

Election finance wrt family type

Funding table

Election Funding - Averages
Politician’s identity Total fund Candidate Party Donations
Family 1071313 306222 328550 431637
Non-family 1225033 393884 457800 370970

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Election finance wrt to criminality

Summary

Summary of the criminality variable
Criminality Count
FALSE 397
TRUE 130

Funding - table

Election Funding - Averages
Politician’s criminality Total fund Candidate Party Donations
FALSE 1226784 376309 453325 396432
TRUE 1063013 355725 325604 370548

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Criminal dynasts

summary

Year Dynast non-criminal Dynast criminal Non-dynast non-criminal Non-dynast criminal
2012 47 20 171 75
2017 43 5 136 30

Table

Election Funding - Averages
Family Criminal Total fund Candidate Party Donations
FamilyFALSE 1102030 317614 324750 453642
FamilyTRUE 936924 256381 345177 335366

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Election finance wrt caste group

Funding - table

Election Funding - Averages
Politician’s caste group Total fund Candidate Party Donations
Dalit 996139 349231 295145 350293
Muslim 803914 200528 190539 416303
Non-Yadav OBC 1092046 452750 284226 355070
Others 856452 285643 327787 243022
Upper Caste 1438744 369884 656068 404725
Yadav 1248178 490100 317078 442000

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