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Freedom of Information (FOI) as a data collection tool for social scientists

This paper evaluates a method of generating a unique dataset that has been underused—a Freedom of Information (FOI) request. 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...

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Autores principales: Clifton-Sprigg, Joanna, James, Jonathan, Vujić, Sunčica
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7034795/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32084163
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228392