Open Government Data Benchmark Study

The State of Open Data from Three perspectives: The Public, Government and Developers.

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Socrata, in collaboration with the Sunlight Foundation, the Personal Democracy Forum, GovLoop, Code for America and David Eaves, is pleased to share the complete findings from this study with the Open Data community. We hope you find the interactive datasets and summary charts insightful. You can contribute by leaving comments, sharing this with others and rating the data. For more on this study, or to download the printed report, go to www.socrata.com/benchmark-study.

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Government Survey
Dataset
What makes a datasite effective? Government stakeholder were asked to select from multiple features that make their datasite more effective. Results are presented by feature, shown as a % of respondents, for all government types combined.
Tags datasite effectiveness features gov 2.0 implementation and 2 more
API Docs
Updated
August 21 2011
Views
33,323

Government Survey
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Ranked categories of data based on government respondents' rating of what is important to publish. Results are presented in terms of %, for all types of government combined.
Tags data categories gov 2.0 important data open data open government and 1 more
API Docs
Updated
October 1 2024
Views
23,688

Government Survey
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Tags No tags assigned
API Docs
Updated
August 21 2011
Views
22,831

Public Survey
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Citizen respondents rate their satisfaction level with their governments' efforts to become more open. Survey responses are broken down by government type (Federal, State and Local) and along several dimensions in the respondent pool, including Region, Education Level, Gender and Household (HH) Income.
Tags civic satisfaction open government
API Docs
Updated
August 21 2011
Views
9,038

Dataset
Respondents who said, "yes, we have an open government mandate" were then asked if it was funded. Responses are tabulated by type of government showing the % of respondents in each group who selected, Yes, No, or Unsure.
Tags gov 2.0 implementation mandate open data open gov and 1 more
API Docs
Updated
August 21 2011
Views
8,678

Developer Survey
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Developers were asked: "When you can find the government data you need, how would you generally describe its accessibility and usability? Please rate the following statements." The statements deal with API access, data quality, documentation and other factors that make government data usable for developers
Tags accessibility api developers open data usability
Updated
August 24 2016
Views
7,909

Government Survey
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Respondents multi-selected between 6 choices to identify the main motivation for starting a data transparency initiative. Results can be grouped by country, type of government org and role of respondent. Choices included "no initiative" to account for those who did not have one.
Tags data transparency drivers government motivators open data
Updated
August 24 2016
Views
5,924

Public Survey
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Citizen respondents express their agreement or disagreement with several statements about Open Government and transparency. Survey responses are broken down along several dimensions in the respondent pool, including Region, Education Level, Gender and Household (HH) Income.
Tags attitudes citizen sentiment feelings open data open government
Updated
August 30 2016
Views
5,609

Public Survey
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Citizen respondents rank how they want to interact with and consume government data. Survey responses are broken down along several dimensions including, Region, Education Level, Gender and Household (HH) Income.
Tags access citizen experience consumption datasite implementation
Updated
August 29 2016
Views
5,356

Developer Survey
Dataset
Developers were asked: "How do you plan to fund application development and maintenance?"
Tags developers funding sustainability of open data applications
API Docs
Updated
August 21 2011
Views
5,305