New York City FOIL Response Metrics by Agency

FOIL reporting metrics track agency compliance with New York City's Open Data Plan. The dataset includes columns for Agency Name, Total FOIL responses, and counts of responses involving public datasets. It is maintained by data.cityofnewyork.us and was last updated in September 2025.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between Agency Name and Total number of FOIL responses that included the release of any data to identify high-volume agencies.
• Track the annual trend of public dataset releases by comparing Report Year with Number of FOIL responses that resulted in data being posted voluntarily on NYC Open Data.
• Identify agencies with unpublished data by filtering on Total number of FOIL responses that includes a public data set not yet published on the Open Data Portal.
• Assess the effectiveness of scheduled releases by comparing Number of FOIL responses that included the sharing of a public dataset already published or scheduled for release with those for datasets neither published nor scheduled.

Strengths

• Includes 8 detailed columns specifically tracking FOIL response outcomes.
• Data is updated regularly, with a last update timestamp of 2025-09-15.

Limitations

• Sample data and total row count are unavailable, making initial data assessment difficult.
• Key metadata like license and original author are unknown, limiting clarity on reuse permissions.

Provenance

Source

data.cityofnewyork.us

Collection Method

Reported metrics as part of the NYC Open Data Compliance Plan under Local Law 11 of 2012.

Time Range

Report Year column indicates temporal coverage, but specific range is unknown.

Freshness

Updated in September 2025.

Geography

New York City government agencies.