Descriptive representation of immigrant-origin citizens at the 2018 Local elections in Flanders

This dataset contains information about the descriptive representation of immigrant-origin citizens at the 2018 local elections in Flanders. It covers 31,176 candidates over 1,312 lists. For each candidate list, this dataset contains information about the percentage of immigrant-origin candidates, their average relative list position and the proportion of elected immigrant-origin candidates. Extra variables are added at the party level (e.g. whether it was part of the local government prior to the 2018 local elections or whether the head of list had an immigrant background) and municipality level (e.g. population density or percentage of the immigrant-origin population) to allow a profound examination of which factors steer the descriptive representation of immigrant-origin citizens. The updated version also includes information about the gendered selection of the immigrant-origin candidates. During this additional coding process, I discovered some small coding errors included in the original version. These errors are corrected in the updated version.本数据集收录了2018年法兰德斯（Flanders）地区地方选举中移民背景公民的描述性代表权（descriptive representation）相关信息。数据集涵盖1312份参选名单，共计31176名候选人。针对每份参选名单，本数据集包含以下维度的信息：移民背景候选人占比、候选人的平均相对参选位次，以及当选移民背景候选人的占比。为深入探究影响移民背景公民描述性代表权的各类因素，数据集还补充了两类额外变量：政党层面变量（例如该政党是否在2018年地方选举前参与地方执政、参选名单榜首候选人是否具有移民背景）以及市政层面变量（例如人口密度、移民背景人口占比）。更新版数据集还新增了移民背景候选人的性别选拔相关信息。本研究在本次新增编码工作中发现了原始版本存在的少量编码错误，更新版已对这些错误完成修正。