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Costa Rica 29% open

Costa Rica is ranked #66 in the 2015 Index
Costa Rica's overall Index ranking is down from #54 in 2014

Rank Dataset Breakdown Location (URL) Format Info Prev. (2014) Score
20 Election Results
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http://tse.go.cr/zip/eleccione... Excel, PDF #22  70% 70%
20 Election Results
URL: http://tse.go.cr/zip/elecciones/eleccionescifras.zip
Format: Excel, PDF

Results are disaggregated only at the national level and for provinces, not for smaller areas like cantons or districts. No license found on site.


48 National Statistics
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http://datos.inec.go.cr CSV, Excel #1  100% 60%
48 National Statistics
URL: http://datos.inec.go.cr
Format: CSV, Excel

Data is available and downloadable in tabular data format. They have a copyright notice. Besides the "open data portal", INEC has another data tabulated in different parts of the site available for download in Excel format (http://www.inec.go.cr/Web/Home/pagPrincipal.aspx). And they have a system to tabulate your own data from surveys http://www.inec.go.cr/Web/Home/GeneradorPagina.aspx. They also have a microdata site when the databases of some of the surveys they make are available for download http://www.inec.go.cr/anda4/index.php/catalog. Nevertheless, the surveys are in .sav format (SPSS format).


45 Government Budget
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https://cgrweb.cgr.go.cr/apex/... CSV #22  70% 60%
45 Government Budget
URL: https://cgrweb.cgr.go.cr/apex/f?p=10263:2:0:::::
Format: CSV

The budget most of all public institutions is accessible and downloadable in the Contraloría General de la República (CGR) Website via an interface as a CSV file. Nevertheless the system is not friendly and to find the detailed budget is complicated and for some institutions is not available. The Central Goverment Budget it is also available in the Ministry of Finance website http://www.hacienda.go.cr/contenido/424-leyes-de-presupuestos but in a PDF format.


28 Weather forecast
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http://www.imn.ac.cr/IMN/MainA... n/a n/a 45%
28 Weather forecast
URL: http://www.imn.ac.cr/IMN/MainAdmin.aspx?__EVENTTARGET=PronosticoExtendido


There is information about the weather forecast for five days but its not in a machine readable format. There is no historical data available in the website.


36 Procurement tenders
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https://www.hacienda.go.cr/rp/... n/a n/a n/a 45%
39 Legislation
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http://www.pgrweb.go.cr/scij/m... n/a #68  35% 45%
39 Legislation
URL: http://www.pgrweb.go.cr/scij/main.aspx


All information of laws and other valid legislation is avalilable there. Lawyers use this information daily.


74 National Map
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http://www.snitcr.go.cr/visor/... n/a #48  35% 15%
74 National Map
URL: http://www.snitcr.go.cr/visor/?lang=en


This is the map available by the National Register System. However, there is a different dataset from the National University, available in open source in the link: http://www.mapoteca.geo.una.ac.cr/index.php/home.html


8 Government Spending
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n/a n/a #15  10% 10%
8 Government Spending


The Contraloría General de la República has information about public spending of different public institutions: https://cgrweb.cgr.go.cr/apex/f?p=10263:3:0::NO:::

Nevertheless the site is not friendly and the data is only aggregated.


49 Location datasets
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n/a n/a #40  10% 10%
49 Location datasets


The postal codes are made up of province, canton and districts (each assigned a number) and made available via an interactive form, one at a time. The map data, available at http://www.snitcr.go.cr/ does include the breakdown of provinces, cantons and districts so the data can be found and merged together but it is not easily accessible.

Geolocation is no sufficient for this dataset type.


71 Company Register
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n/a n/a #70  10% 10%
71 Company Register


It can be accessed online but a password or permissions is required.


57 Water Quality
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57 Water Quality


No official resource offers this data to the public.


85 Land Ownership
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n/a n/a n/a n/a 0%
79 Pollutant Emissions
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n/a n/a #51  35% 0%
79 Pollutant Emissions


There is partial information that is hard to find and mostly available on official reports. The last report on greenhouse emissions was from 2014 and available en PDF http://cglobal.imn.ac.cr/sites/default/files/documentos/inventariogasesinvernadero2010-web_0.pdf.


Contributors

Reviewers

  • Oscar Montiel
  • Mariel García M
  • Georg Neumann
  • Gil Zaretzer
  • Kamil Gregor
  • Tryggvi Björgvinsson
  • Mor Rubinstein
  • Zach Christensen
  • anonymous
  • Nisha Thompson
  • yar michl
  • Sander van der Waal
  • Neal Bastek
  • Iris Palma
  • Codrina Maria Ilie

Submitters

  • Mor Rubinstein
  • Tryggvi Björgvinsson
  • Ignacio Alfaro
  • anonymous
  • Alejandro Sanabria
  • camila salazar