Government respondents who said "yes" to "are you actively engaging with your constituents as part of your Open Data initiative?" were then asked to specify how they are doing it or planning to do it. Responses are grouped by type of government and are presented in % of respondents who selected each option. This questions was not a multi-select.

Percentage of respondents, in each level of government, who chose a specific obstacle as the main challenge to data transparency/ open data.

All government respondents were asked to state to what extent they agree or disagree about 9 statements about Open Data/ Open Gov.
Responses are broken down by type of government.

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.

Respondents were asked to select from 3 options: Yes, No, Unsure
Results are presented by %, for each level of government: federal, state, county and municipal. Sample size: 243

Respondents were asked to select only one option from a list of different data consumption options for citizens. The results are shown by % of respondents for each choice, for all government types (Federal, State and Local).

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.

Ranked categories of data based on citizen survey respondents' rating of what they deem important to publish. Results are sorted based on what is "Most Important". Results are presented for all segments in the citizen survey respondents.

Government respondents were asked whether they're actively trying to engage with civic application developers to build apps using their organization's data.open data initiative. Responses are grouped by type of government and are presented in % of respondents who selected each option. This questions was not a multi-select.

Respondents who said, "yes, we have an open government mandate" were then asked if the mandate included the creation of a centralized datasite (or data catalog). Responses are tabulated by type of government showing the % of respondents in each group who selected, Yes, No, or Unsure.