Voting in the Storting and Sub-Divisions (vot_votering)

Main table, which gives an overview of the votes. Note that a vote can span several issues, subjects and committees. These variables are therefore omitted from the main table and placed in separate tables. The identifier id_vot links them together.

Identification of the vote (id_vot)

Identifies the individual vote.

Date (dato)

Date of the vote.

Time (tid)

Hour, minute and second for the vote. Located in a separate variable since meetings in the Storting can extend until past midnight. The time for the vote will then technically be the next day, but is still registered on the date when the meeting started. If, for example, the date is 10 May and the time is 01:23, it means in reality that voting took off on 11 May since the date changed when the clock ticked past midnight. With date and time in the same variable, this link would be problematic.

Time (raw data) (TID)

This variable can essentially be ignored. Time is incorporated into the new variable tid, but in some cases in the 1980s it is impossible to understand what the time should be. It can be 3-4 digit numbers such as 553 or 3930. These are preserved as they are, with the hope that they will one day be understood.

Session (ses)

Numbering of the period of time when the Storting sits together, currently from autumn to spring. Example: Session 166 indicates H2021-V2022.

Hall (sal)

Code indicating whether the vote took place in plenum or in a sub-parliament. See the table i_vot_sal for codes.

Agenda (kart)

Number that refers to the agends. There is usually one agenda per day. The numbering starts at 1 for a new session.

Voting number (votnr)

Voting number, unique from the Storting's side from and including session 156 (H2011). Before that, the numbering started at 1 for each agenda.

Voting type (vottyp)

What type of voting (the committee's proposal, private, alternative, etc.) is carried out. The i_vot_vottyp table contains codes, which are currently:

1 Voting on the setting's proposal
2 Voting on personal proposal
3 Alternative voting between the setting and personal proposal
4 Alternative voting between two personal proposals
9 Data missing (procedure, president, Lagting, Odelsting)

President (president)

Who was president of the Storting during the session. See the table i_politikere for names and other personal data. See the table sto_representant for party.