There are *** members of the House of Representatives in any congressional sitting. In the ***** Congress which began in January 2023, there were ** Black members, ** Asian American members, ** Hispanic members.

This dataset tracks annual diversity score from 1991 to 2023 for Congress Community Middle School vs. Florida and Palm Beach School District

Although gender and racial diversity in Congress has steadily grown since 1948, the percent of members of Congress from the working-class has remained stagnant at 2% (Carnes 2015). What are the consequences of the continued underrepresentation of the working-class? While prior work has examined the impact of gender or racial based descriptive representation on political evaluations and political behavior our understanding of current trends in congressional diversity is limited due to inadequate attention to class. This project examines whether the lack of working-class representation functions similarly to a lack of gender representation in Congress, whereby we manipulate the percent of members of Congress who have been employed in working-class positions or the percentage of women in Congress. The results show whether class diversity in Congress impact political efficacy, trust, and perceptions of Congress similarly to the effects of gender diversity.

The most recent polling data from February 2025 puts the approval rating of the United States Congress at 29 percent, reflecting a significant increase from January. The approval rating remained low throughout the 118th Congress cycle, which began in January 2025. Congressional approval Congressional approval, particularly over the past few years, has not been high. Americans tend to see Congress as a group of ineffectual politicians who are out of touch with their constituents. The 118th Congress began in 2023 with a rocky start. The Democratic Party maintains control of the Senate, but Republicans took back control of the House of Representatives after the 2022 midterm elections. The House caught media attention from its first days with a contentious fight for the position of Speaker of the House. Representative Kevin McCarthy was eventually sworn in as Speaker after a historic fifteen rounds of voting. Despite the current Congress having a historic share of women and being the most diverse Congress in American history, very little has been done to improve the opinion of Americans regarding its central lawmaking body. Ye of little faith However, Americans tend not to have much confidence in many of the institutions in the United States. Additionally, public confidence in the ability of the Republican and Democratic parties to work together has decreased drastically between 2008 and 2022, with nearly 60 percent of Americans having no confidence the parties can govern in a bipartisan way.

This dataset was collected as an attempt to study trends of latino representation in the U.S. Senate by including participants from a renown fellowship and internship program hosted by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI). More specifically, the data was created by collecting the statistic results from "DIVERSITY AMONG U.S. SENATE DEMOCRATIC STAFF" survey series 2017-2020. Followed by creating a binary variable if a CHCI participant was placed in the recorded offices or committees. Not all CHCI participants are accounted for in this dataset due to no diversity data avaliable for the U.S. House of Representatives. CHCI Intern Participants from Summer-Fall 2020 are not included due to placement information unavailable. Term codes are used for internship programs due to the programs veing organized by Fall(F) Spring (SP) and Summer (S). Percent_White is calculated as X =1 - Percent_Non-White. Any mistakes are my own, CHCI had no formal involvement in the data collection process.

On January 21, 2011, FHFA established its Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (OMWI) consistent with Section 342 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank Act). OMWI is responsible for leading the Agency’s efforts to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

FHFA's OMWI Annual Report to Congress describes how the Agency increases diversity and ensures inclusion throughout the FHFA workforce and in our business activities, including procurement by continuing existing programs that have been effective, as well as developing and implementing new strategies and initiatives to support a diverse workforce and maintain an inclusive organizational culture. The Report also summarizes FHFA's oversight of the diversity and inclusion activities of its regulated entities – this includes Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the 11 Federal Home Loan Banks, and the Office of Finance, as required under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008.

This dataset tracks annual diversity score from 1999 to 2023 for Congress Middle School vs. Missouri and Park Hill School District

This dataverse contains the data and supporting documents for the CCES 2014 University of Iowa project. This project was supporting by the National Science Foundation, Grant Number SES-1430505

This dataset tracks annual diversity score from 1991 to 2023 for Congress School vs. Michigan and Sturgis School District

Although the benefits of increasing descriptive diversity in Congress are well-explored, less attention has been paid to the positive impacts of increasing descriptive diversity in elections. Employing a comprehensive collection of campaign platform text from nearly 5,000 campaign websites, we find that Democratic male and white candidates are significantly more likely to take up women's and Black-associated issues when a candidate who possesses that identity runs in their same-party primary election. Extending our analysis to military veterans, we find that Republicans are more likely to discuss veterans' issues when there is a military veteran in their primary; conversely, Democrats are not any more likely to discuss these issues when they run against a veteran. Looking to candidate position taking in the general election, our findings suggest that simply the presence of candidates from underrepresented populations in congressional races is important to broadening substantive representation in the legislative arena.

The U.S. Congress has become increasingly diverse over the years, though remains predominantly Protestant and Catholic. In 2023, **** percent of Congress identified as Protestant, and *** percent of Congress identified as Muslim.

This dataset tracks annual diversity score from 1991 to 2023 for Congress Elementary School vs. Wisconsin and Milwaukee School District

U.S. 115th Congressional Districts represents the political boundaries for the U.S. 115th Congress which began on January 3, 2017. The official membership is current as of October 1, 2018.This layer is based on source from the US Census 500k data and now includes the new, redistricted boundaries for Pennsylvania ordered by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.Also included is a selection of Esri's 2018 Demographic data including income, education, race and diversity, psychographics, and more. Examples of maps that can be made from this data can be found in this ArcGIS Online group. More information about Esri's demographics can be found on our U.S. data overview. Esri offers a second version of this data that includes all of the outlaying USA territories here. The layer without demographics can be found here.

Sea turtles are a circumglobal taxon that receive considerable research and conservation attention; however, there is little published information about patterns of representation for people working with these species. To assess long-term trends in gender, geographic, and institutional representation within the sea turtle community, we quantified information from 7041 abstracts presented at the International Sea Turtle Symposium (ISTS) between 1988–2018. We report several key findings. (1) The number of authors per abstract doubled over the study period, suggesting greater acknowledgment of contributing individuals. (2) The proportion of female first and last authors has increased over time and at the end of the study period female first authors were in a slight majority (53%) even though last authors remained predominantly (64%) male. (3) Most researchers were from North America (45%) but representation from other continents has increased over time. (4) It was common for authors from North America (34%) and Europe (42%) to conducted research in other continents. This was far less common (

This dataverse contains the data and supporting documents for the CCES 2014 Indiana University. This project was supported by the National Science Foundation, Grant Number, SES-1430505

This dataset tracks annual diversity score from 2005 to 2023 for Congress Elementary School vs. Michigan and Grand Rapids School District

Sea turtles are a circumglobal taxon that receive considerable research and conservation attention; however, there is little published information about patterns of representation for people working with these species. To assess long-term trends in gender, geographic, and institutional representation within the sea turtle community, we quantified information from 7041 abstracts presented at the International Sea Turtle Symposium (ISTS) between 1988–2018. We report several key findings. (1) The number of authors per abstract doubled over the study period, suggesting greater acknowledgment of contributing individuals. (2) The proportion of female first and last authors has increased over time and at the end of the study period female first authors were in a slight majority (53%) even though last authors remained predominantly (64%) male. (3) Most researchers were from North America (45%) but representation from other continents has increased over time. (4) It was common for authors from North America (34%) and Europe (42%) to conducted research in other continents. This was far less common (

In 2024, Oregon scored highest in the Gender Parity Index with a score of 54.1. The state of Maine also reached gender parity that year, with a score of 51.8. Michigan, New Mexico, and Nevada rounded off the top five states that year, with all three within five points of reaching gender parity.

Dataset and scripts necessary to replicate figures and tables in "Prioritized Interests: Diverse Lobbying Coalitions and Congressional Committee Agenda-Setting" and associated online appendix

This dataset tracks annual diversity score from 2003 to 2023 for Congress Elementary District (4479) School District vs. Arizona