Summary stats

This mplads data is for the 14th and 15the Loksabha which commenced on 20004 and 2009 respectively. We matched it with Uttar Pradesh MPs for the same years.

Observations: 1, 42

Years : 2009 and 2014 - 25 and 31 dynast MPs respectively.

Main variables : Type of project and the cost incurred. Main categories of type of projects are Road, Electricity, Education, Construction, Water, Others, Sanitation

Two type of comparisons

Family v/s Non-family

This table shows the average number of projects and the cost for the family types. First table is for both years and the second one is year by year break-up of the same.

MPLADS 2004:2009 UP
Entity	Count of projects	Avg. # of projects in a PC	Avg. cost of a project	Avg. # of weeks to sanction a project
Family	13395	429	317783	10
Non-family	19782	319	350653	10

Stable v/s non-family

so we limit our dataset to 2009 to do this analysis

MPLADS 2009 - UP
Entity	Count of projects	Avg. # of projects in a PC	Avg. cost of a project	Avg. # of weeks to sanction a project
Non-Family	7655	269	13	2
Stable Family	6476	553	12	2

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Projects

Question - Is there any difference in the project choices of family politicians?

This table shows the composition of the category of the projects they choose work on.

This chart shows the average number of projects of each categories according to the family type.

Expenditure

Question - Is there any difference in the spending patterns of family politicians?

Cost per project

Question : What’s the average cost of a project for each categories?

cost categories

We categorised the projects into three depending upon the cost of the project:

Categories:

Low - 0-.2 mn

Medium - 2.2 mn - 5 mn

High - 5 mn+

Project cost categories wrt politician’s identity
Cost Categry	Politicians Identity	Proportion of projects
Low	Family	0.49
Low	Non-family	0.40
Medium	Family	0.30
Medium	Non-family	0.37
High	Family	0.21
High	Non-family	0.23

MPLADS Analysis

2020-06-18

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