jurisdiction_metadata: Metadata about jurisdictions in the MuckRock database

Description Usage Format Source See Also

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

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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withdrawn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

https://www.muckrock.com/

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.


muckrock documentation built on May 2, 2019, 6:38 a.m.