The Obama administration has declined to post, and in some cases has removed, several sets of downloadable statistics that agencies submitted last week for publication online, due to privacy and other concerns.
Agencies sent the Office of Management and Budget almost 300 data sets to post on Jan. 22, in an effort to comply with a December open government directive that required they file at least three new listings in a public statistics clearinghouse called Data.gov within 60 days.
But researchers at the transparency group Openthegovernment.org noticed on Monday that some of the data sets were no longer available, according to a table on Data.gov showing the number of contributions per agency.
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