Estimating the effect of the gender quota: The initial question
A gender quota for candidates was imposed in the 2016 Irish election (see e.g., http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/gender-quota). The question arises whether it had an impact. As a first pass consider the following table:1
| gender
dail | f m | Total
-----------+----------------------+----------
2011 | 21 145 | 166
| 12.65 87.35 | 100.00
-----------+----------------------+----------
2016 | 32 116 | 148
| 21.62 78.38 | 100.00
-----------+----------------------+----------
Total | 53 261 | 314
| 16.88 83.12 | 100.00
This is clearly a big rise. Is it statistically significant?
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