Qualified majority voting (QMV) weights

This dataset includes data on qualified majority voting (QMV) weights in the Council of the European Union. The total number of votes allocated across member states and the number of votes allocated to each member state have changed over time. This dataset tracks those changes and calculates the normalized voting weight for each member state for each period.

qmv_weights

Format

A data frame with 17 variables:

key_id

Numeric. An ID number that uniquely identifies each observation.

period

Numeric. An ID number that uniquely identifies each period.

start_date

Date. The start day of the period in the format YYYY-MM-DD.

start_year

Numeric. The start year of the period.

start_month

Numeric. The start month of the period.

start_day

Numeric. The start day of the period.

end_date

Date. The end date of the period in the format YYYY-MM-DD.

end_year

Numeric. The end year of the period.

end_month

Numeric. The end month of the period.

end_day

Numeric. The end day of the period.

count_member_states

Numeric. The number of member states.

member_state_id

Numeric. An ID number that uniquely identifies each member state.

member_state

String. The name of the member state.

member_state_code

String. A two-letter code assigned to each member state by the Commission.

votes

Numeric. The number of votes allocated to each member state during the period.

total_votes

Numeric. The total number of votes allocated across all member states during the period.

normalized_weight

Numeric. The normalized voting weight of the member state during the period. Calculated as the number of votes allocated to the member state divided by the total number of votes allocated to all member states.