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
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- withdrawn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.