Open Data Census / Suggest new data categories

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2	Transport Timetables	Transport	Timetables of major government operated (or commissioned) national-level public transport services (bus, train, etc). The focus here is on national level services (not those which operate only at a municipal or city level and which are not controlled or regulated by the national government)	This would be a little difficult to implement in my country considering there is different level of advance of transport service for different states. And national ministeries always identify with a succedding scheme even when they did not contribute directly to its success.
3	Government Budget	Finance	Government budget at a high level (e.g. spending by sector, department etc). Budgets are government plans for expenditure though often actual expenditure for past periods is reported (but usually only at a very high level)
4	Government Spending	Finance	Government spending at a detailed transactional level, that is at the level of month to month government expenditure including money spent on specific contracts or with specific vendors.
5	Election Results	Civic Information	Results by constituency / district for all major national electoral contests
6	Company Register	Civic Information	List of registered (limited liability) companies including name, unique identifier and additional information such as address, registered activities. Need NOT include detailed financial data such as balance sheet etc	manfredk: Plenty of national registers existing. I wonder how to capture international corporations? Shouldn't this be accompanied by an international company register? added a sheet "International Datasets" Emma: that is also very dependent on the country in question
7	National Map	Geodata	High level map at a scale of 1:250,000 or better (1cm = 2.5km)
8	National Statistics	Civic Information	Key national statistics on matters such as population and economy (GDP, unemployment etc) (aggregated / depersonalised)
9	Legislation	Legislative	All laws and statutes available online. (This item does not require that information on legislative behaviour e.g. voting records is available)
10	Postcodes / Zipcodes	Geodata	Database of postcodes / zipcodes and their corresponding geolocations
11	Emissions of pollutants	Environment	Location and amount all major sources of (man-made) pollutants (e.g factories)
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13	Government procurement contracts	Finance	Contract awards including company information, description of work and amount
14	Crime statistics (nature, location, time of crime)	Civic Information	Disaggregated crime statistics. Disaggregated means individual crimes or as close to individual as is possible whilst still respecting privacy.	AStott: Need to make clear whether this is individual crimes or crime statistics - for instance individual crime data is needed to feed a "Chicago Crime Map"-style application
15	School statistics (number of pupils, educational outcomes, fees)	Civic Information	Disaggregated (i.e. school level) performance and informational statistics.	AStott: Are these educational statistics or data on individual schools. My vote for the latter!
16	Health statistics (surgeries, number of patients)	Civic Information		AStott: Location of hospitals/clinics very welcome, but these are not statistics.
17	Air quality	Environment
18	Location of major transport terminals	Transport / Geodata
19	National Map (detailed: 1:10,000 map)	Geodata		AS: National 1:10,000 is a bit demanding for many countries, particularly (but not only) developing countries, who do not have this data at all or only for selected urban areas. 1:50,000 may be a fairer point of comparison.
20	Elected or government officials	Civic information	The name, seat and contact information of each elected or government official	I think it is incredibly important in any country (and especially democracies) to know who the political leaders are and how to contact them. (I've named the dataset to include places like China, feel free to rename.) Given that national-level transport timetables don't exist in all countries (because not all countries have central government-operated transport), I would promote this dataset and demote the timetables.
21	CO2 emissions	Environment	Estimated CO2 emissions per year (if possibly broken down by major sectors of the economy)	very important and well aligned
22	Water Quality	Environment
23	Roadworks (location etc)	Transport
24	Access to Water and Sanitation	Civic Information		LN comment - how would we measure this? What data do you need?
25	Registered Company annual reports / returns (balance sheet, profit and loss etc)	Companies
26	Public Facitilies Information	Civic Information	(location, amenities, shapefile, environmental makeup, ownership and contact info)
27	Modal Share	Transport	Percentage of travelers using a particular type of transportation or number of trips using said type
28	Location of public toilets	Transport	May not be the most useful dataset?	AStott: Widen this to "Points of (Civic) Interest" - including libraries, museums, galleries, public offices and so on as well as toilets. However this category more appropriate for city-level census as such POI data will often not be held at national level Emma: Segmentating this with waste deposit points, parking spaces,
29	Taxi stops	Transport
30	bike trail	Transport
31	Pharmacies	Health
32	Health Centers	Health
33	Historic/cultural sites	Geodata/culture
34	Library resources	Research/academia
35	Traffic and traffic signs	Transport
36	NGOs, Non-Profits, Foundations, Humanitarian associations, Interest Groups	Civic information
37	Power supply	Civic information	Amount of power supply in megawatt, amount consumed, generation/transmission/distribution companies,
38	Broadband Penetration	Civic Information
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