jurisdiction_metadata {muckrock} | R Documentation |
Metadata about jurisdictions in the MuckRock database
Description
A dataset containing metadata about the jurisdictions in the MuckRock database. Note that this is all jurisdictions - some of them have not necessarily received Freedom of Information Act requests.
Usage
jurisdiction_metadata
Format
A data frame with 33609 rows and 15 variables:
- jurisdiction_id
The MuckRock internal ID of the jurisdiction
- jurisdiction_name
The name of the jurisdiction.
- avg_resp_time
The average time taken (in days) for the jurisdiction to respond to a request.
- avg_comms
The average number of communications (emails, letters) with the jurisdiction per-request.
- total_pages
The total number of pages of material released by the jurisdiction.
- total_requests
The total number of Freedom of Information Act requests made by MuckRock to the jurisdiction.
- awaiting_response
The number of FOIA requests made to the jurisdiction that are awaiting a response from them.
- awaiting_appeal
The number of FOIA requests made to the jurisdiction that are awaiting an appeal of the decision of whether material could be released.
- fix_required
The number of FOIA requests where the request needs amending or redirecting.
- payment_required
The number of FOIA requests where the jurisdiction requires payment to process the materials
- no_response
The number of FOIA requests where the jurisdiction has not responded.
- completed
The number of FOIA requests where the jurisdiction provided the requested materials.
- partially_completed
The number of FOIA requests where the jurisdiction provided some of the requested materials
- rejected
The number of FOIA requests where the jurisdiction rejected the request
- withdrawn
The number of FOIA requests where the jurisdiction rejected the request
Source
See Also
agency_metadata
which contains metadata about the agencies
subject to FOIA requests, using similar formatting, and request_metadata
for information
about individual requests.