Texas Open Records Requests With Regulatory And Financial Metrics

1999 to 2025 records of public information requests made to Texas state agencies. The dataset tracks request status, associated agency, and detailed counts of requested information types such as regulatory, financial, and personnel data. It is published by data.texas.gov and was last updated in September 2025.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in request volume and type over time using the `Year`, `Month`, `Status`, and columns like `NumRegulatoryInformation` and `NumBudgetInformation`.
• Model agency workload or request complexity by correlating `NumMinutes` (estimated processing time) with counts of specific request types such as `NumPersonnelInformation` or `NumPendingLitigation`.
• Identify common request categories and exceptions by examining the distribution of `NumEstManException` (mandatory exceptions) and descriptive fields like `DescOther8` or `DescOther9`.
• Assess financial aspects of requests by analyzing `MoniesReceived` in relation to request status and agency.

Strengths

• Covers a 26-year time range from 1999 to 2025.
• Contains over 30 columns detailing request metadata, content types, and processing metrics.
• Data is updated regularly, with a recent update in September 2025.

Limitations

• Total row count and dataset size are unknown, making scale assessment difficult.
• Sample data is unavailable, preventing initial validation of data structure and values.
• Potential for incomplete records or null values in descriptive columns like `DescOther12`.

Provenance

Source

data.texas.gov

Collection Method

Collected from state agencies in response to open records requests.

Time Range

1999 to 2025

Freshness

Updated in September 2025; specific update frequency is null.

Geography

Texas, USA (implied by source)