Dodd Frank financial reform at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC): Public comments, January 14th, 2010 – July 16th, 2014

This dataset includes a complete record of the 36,066 public comments submitted to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in response to notices of proposed rule-making (NPRMs) implementing the Dodd-Frank Act over a 42-month period (January 14, 2010 to July 16, 2014). The data was exported from the agency’s internal database by the CFTC and provided to the authors by email correspondence following a cold call to the CFTC public relations department. The source internal database is maintained by the CFTC as part of its internal compliance with the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) and includes all rule-making notices that appear in the Federal Register. Owing to the salience and publicity of the Dodd-Frank Act, the CFTC made a special tag in its database for all comments submitted in response to rules proposed under the authority of the Dodd-Frank Act. This database thus includes all comments which the CFTC considers relevant to the Dodd-Frank reform.
In short, the CFTC gave t..., This dataset was exported by the CFTC from their internal database of public comments in response to NPRMs. The uploaded file is the exact raw data generated by the CTFC and provided to the authors.
An updated version of the data file including the author's classifications based on the organization value will be uploaded when the related work is accepted for publication., , # Dodd Frank Financial Reform at the CFTC - Public Comments, January 14th, 2010 to July 16th, 2014

## Description of the data and file structure

NOTE: The Comment Text ( and variables) are longer than the maximum character count of Microsoft Excel cells (32,767 characters). All analysis should take this into account and import the .txt file directly into your analysis program (R, Stata, etc.) rather than attempt to edit or modify the data in Excel before using computational analysis.

There are two files provided:

1. DoddFrankCommentsAll(uncompressed).txt - the full raw data file from the CFTC internal database of all 36,066 comments on NPRMs
2. (2014-07-30) CFTC Original Codebook.xlsx - the codebook provided by the CTFC with the raw data. Originally provided as email text, formatted in Excel by authors.

Codebook: 

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