Dataset for "Freedom of information (FOI) as a data collection tool for social scientists."

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code 12990 4 38017 document 12990 Readme_file_for-FOI_PLOSONE.docx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document fbaae7457364a1a228156ae450de36ef MD5 12543 2020-01-16 21:15:48 https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/763/5/Readme_file_for-FOI_PLOSONE.docx 763 5 5 application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document other en public cc_by

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/id/document/12990 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/id/document/12990 http://eprints.org/relation/isIndexCodesVersionOf https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/id/document/12990 archive 3934 disk0/00/00/07/63 2020-01-27 10:37:02 2024-05-14 13:11:43 2020-01-27 10:37:02 data_collection show Clifton-Sprigg Joanna J.M.Clifton-Sprigg@bath.ac.uk 0000-0003-1101-5489 University of Bath FALSE James Jonathan J.James@bath.ac.uk 0000-0002-8206-1637 University of Bath TRUE Vujic Suncica Suncica.Vujic@uantwerpen.be 0000-0001-6510-1636 University of Antwerp FALSE Dataset for "Freedom of information (FOI) as a data collection tool for social scientists." DV0010 JE0030 JZ0020 dept_economics The dataset and code contains the analysis of "Freedom of information (FOI) as a data collection tool for social scientists" which evaluates a method of generating a unique dataset that has been underused - a Freedom of Information (FOI) request. 2020-01-27 University of Bath public The UK’s FOI Act came into force in 2005, allowing the public to make requests of publicly held data. We set out to understand the determinants of the quality responses to FOI requests. We also explain how requests can be made and provide suggestions to construct effective data-driven requests. We applied for data on hate crime from all police forces and on uptake of maternity leave from all universities. We find that observable characteristics of the local area, police force and universities neither determine whether the request was fulfilled, nor the speed of response, suggesting that the data from these FOI requests are representative of the institutions from which they were requested. RightsHolder University of Bath Self-funded Data was collected using i) Freedom of Information requests, ii) downloaded from government websites: police force characteristics and crime statistics - Home Office; local area demographic characteristics - 2011 Census; labour market characteristics - ONS. The data and code files are in Stata format. Microsoft Excel was also used to prepare the data. UK en 1 10.15125/BATH-00763 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228392 pub open