agency_metadata: Metadata about agencies subject to MuckRock Freedom of Information Act
requests.
Description
A dataset containing metadata about the agencies subject to
requests under the US Freedom of Information Act sent by MuckRock.
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- withdrawn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.
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.