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muckrock (version 0.1.0)

jurisdiction_metadata: 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

Arguments

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withdrawn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

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.