agency_metadata: Metadata about agencies subject to MuckRock Freedom of...

Description Usage Format Source See Also

Description

A dataset containing metadata about the agencies subject to requests under the US Freedom of Information Act sent by MuckRock.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 5773 rows and 15 variables:

agency_id

The MuckRock internal ID of the agency.

agency_name

The name of the agency.

avg_resp_time

The average time taken (in days) for the agency to respond to a request.

avg_comms

The average number of communications (emails, letters) with the agency per-request.

total_pages

The total number of pages of material released by the agency.

total_requests

The total number of Freedom of Information Act requests made by MuckRock to the agency.

awaiting_response

The number of FOIA requests made to the agency that are awaiting a response from them.

awaiting_appeal

The number of FOIA requests made to the agency 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 agency requires payment to process the materials.

no_response

The number of FOIA requests where the agency has not responded.

completed

The number of FOIA requests where the agency provided the requested materials.

partially_completed

The number of FOIA requests where the agency provided some of the requested materials.

rejected

The number of FOIA requests where the agency rejected the request.

withdrawn

The number of FOIA requests where the agency rejected the request.

Source

https://www.muckrock.com/

See Also

jurisdiction_metadata which contains metadata about the jurisdictions in the MuckRock database, using similar formatting, and request_metadata for information about individual requests.


Ironholds/muckrock documentation built on May 7, 2019, 6:40 a.m.