| Type: | Package |
| Title: | Data on Freedom of Information Act Requests |
| Version: | 0.1.0 |
| Date: | 2016-06-05 |
| Maintainer: | Oliver Keyes <ironholds@gmail.com> |
| Author: | Oliver Keyes [aut, cre], MuckRock Project [cph] |
| Description: | A data package containing public domain information on requests made by the 'MuckRock' (https://www.muckrock.com/) project under the United States Freedom of Information Act. |
| License: | Unlimited |
| LazyData: | TRUE |
| RoxygenNote: | 5.0.1 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 2.10) |
| URL: | https://github.com/Ironholds/muckrock/ |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/Ironholds/muckrock/issues |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Packaged: | 2016-06-05 23:24:08 UTC; ironholds |
| Repository: | CRAN |
| Date/Publication: | 2016-06-06 06:39:51 |
muckrock: a data package for the Freedom of Information Act
Description
muckrock is a data package containing metadata associated with
US Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests, as aggregated and released by the
MuckRock project.
Details
the package's contents are:
agency_metadataInformation about agencies that requests have been submitted to.
jurisdiction_metadataInformation about jurisdictions covered by MuckRock's scope.
request_metadataMetadata associated with the actual FOIA requests.
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.
Usage
agency_metadata
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
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.
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
Source
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.
Metadata about requests in the MuckRock database
Description
A dataset containing metadata about the individual requests in the MuckRock database of Freedom of Information Act requests.
Usage
request_metadata
Format
A data frame with 18970 rows and 19 variables:
- request_id
The MuckRock internal ID of the request.
- user_id
The MuckRock internal ID of the user who submitted the request.
- title
The title of the request.
- status
The request's current status. Options are "no docs" (there is nothing to release), "appealing" (the decision to not-release is being appealed", "done" (the request is completed), "fix" (the request needs changes before it can be completed), "rejected" (the agency rejected the request), "partial" (the request was partially completed), "abandoned" (the requestor gave up), "processed" (the request is in the works), "payment" (the request requires payment to the agency), "submitted" (the request has been submitted, but no other action has been taken), and "ack" (the request has been acknowledged, but no other action taken).
- jurisdiction_id
The ID of the jurisdiction. Matches the ID in
jurisdiction_metadata.- agency_id
The ID of the agency. Matches the ID in
agency_metadata.- date_submitted
The date the request was submitted.
- date_done
The date the request was completed.
- date_due
The date a response is due from the agency.
- days_until_due
The number of days until the response is due.
- date_followup
The date of any followup.
- is_embargoed
Whether the results of the request are currently under an embargo.
- date_embargo
The date any embargo expire(s|d) on.
- price
The processing fee charged for the request.
- description
a description of the request.
- tracking_id
The tracking ID assigned to the request by the agency it was submitted to.
- tags
Any metadata tags associated with the request.
- agency_name
The name of the agency the request was submitted to.
- jurisdiction_name
The name of the jurisdiction the agency resides in.
Source
See Also
agency_metadata and jurisdiction_metadata for
metadata on jurisdictions and agencies subject to FOIA requests, respectively.