2018 Pakistan General Election Candidate Scrutiny Forms

This repository hosts cleaned candidate scrutiny forms released by the Election Commission of Pakistan for prospective candidates for Pakistan's 2018 national and provincial assembly elections. The scrutiny forms consist of data released on tax payments from the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), corruption cases from the the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), and oustanding loans from the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). The final output after cleaning is also included as pk_candidate_scrutiny_data_2018.csv, or in wide format (collapsing three reported tax-year rows per candidate into a single row) as pk_candidate_scrutiny_data_2018_wide.csv.