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Data on presidents from west Africa

Presidents Name Data

Data on presidents from west Africa

Countries covered:

• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Cote d'Ivoire
• The Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Liberia
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Togo

The data come from world states men website. Each script shows how the data has been processed for each country. Here are the main variables in the dataframe obtained at the end of the datawrangling step:

• country: the country name
• start_day / end_day: resp. the start and end day of each president
• start_month / end_month: resp. The start and end month of each president
• start_year / end_year: resp. The start and end year of each president
• president_name: The name of the president
• military / provisional: 0 (No) / 1 (Yes) indicating if the government has been a military one or a provisional.

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