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Jamaica is ranked #37 in the 2015 Index
Jamaica's overall Index ranking is up from #45 in 2014

Rank Dataset Breakdown Location (URL) Format Info Prev. (2014) Score
3 Land Ownership
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http://www.nla.gov.jm/ CSV n/a 70%
3 Land Ownership
URL: http://www.nla.gov.jm/
Format: CSV

Based on data availability, the land ownership is found on the iMap Jamaica website: http://www.nla.gov.jm/map.asp where you search by parcel and search by street address.


21 National Map
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http://www.nla.gov.jm/map.asp ArcGIS #25  60% 60%
21 National Map
URL: http://www.nla.gov.jm/map.asp
Format: ArcGIS

Map includes satellite imagery and annotation. Download does not appear to be possible and data is not openly licensed.


20 Weather forecast
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http://www.metservice.gov.jm/i... n/a n/a 55%
20 Weather forecast
URL: http://www.metservice.gov.jm/index.asp


The Meteorological Division is comprised of three distinct Branches, all overseen by the Director of Meteorological Services and managed by separate Branch Heads. These are the Administration and Support Services Branch, the Weather Branch and the Climate Branch.

The data is available through the URL http://www.metservice.gov.jm/climate.asp?id=3

Data is in pdf format and not machine readable.


30 Legislation
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http://moj.gov.jm/laws?title n/a #33  45% 55%
30 Legislation
URL: http://moj.gov.jm/laws?title


Data is in pdf format and not machine readable.


39 Election Results
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http://www.eoj.com.jm/content-... n/a #43  55% 55%
39 Election Results
URL: http://www.eoj.com.jm/content-183-179.htm


Data on parliamentary election results is available in detail as a PDF and in summary as PDF and HTML. Elections are dated from 2011. The new elections will be in the year 2016.


49 Government Budget
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http://www.mof.gov.jm/opening-... n/a #43  55% 55%
49 Government Budget
URL: http://www.mof.gov.jm/opening-budget-speeches/file/951-opening-budget-speech-2015-2016.html


Data including budgets, budget memoranda, presentations to parliament and revenue measures are all available from the site. There is no clear license within the PDF documents and a copyright (all rights reserved) statement on the website itself.

Data is in pdf format and not machine readable. Estimates by department can be found here - http://www.mof.gov.jm/budgets/estimates-of-revenue-expenditure/file/935-estimates-of-revenue-and-expenditure-for-the-year-ending-march-2015.html


64 National Statistics
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http://statinja.gov.jm/Default... HTML, ... #41  60% 50%
64 National Statistics
URL: http://statinja.gov.jm/Default.aspx
Format: HTML, XLS, CSV, TXT, TSV, QCSV

GDP data

Unemployment (only up to 2014)

Population (only up to 2014)


36 Procurement tenders
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http://jis.gov.jm/information/... n/a n/a 45%
36 Procurement tenders
URL: http://jis.gov.jm/information/procurements/


Tenders are invited from appropriately qualified contractors registered with the National Contracts Commission (NCC) for the provision of Goods, Services and Works. For the provision of Insurance Services, in addition to the foregoing requirements, Brokers/Insurers must also be registered and pre-qualified by the Financial Services Commission (FSC). Upon the submission of tenders, Contractors must submit valid Tax Compliance Certificates (TCCs) and National Contracts Commission (NCC) Certificates. Procurement opportunities offered by way of International Competitive Bidding are not subject to the above. However, NCC and TCC Certificates are required prior to the award of contract(s). Awarded contracts are listed seperately.

Data is in pdf format and not machine readable.


30 Pollutant Emissions
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http://www.nepa.gov.jm/new/ser... n/a #23  60% 45%
30 Pollutant Emissions
URL: http://www.nepa.gov.jm/new/services_products/subsites/air_quality/reports.php


it seem data is Exists for 2010-2012 in the

from a Regional Workshop on Metrology and Technology Challenges of Climate Science and Renewable Energy pdf it seem the data is been continuous to be Measurements for all the type of Pollution


20 Water Quality
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http://www.nwcjamaica.com/WATE... n/a n/a 35%
20 Water Quality
URL: http://www.nwcjamaica.com/WATER_TREATMENT.asp


The National Water Commission (NWC), as Jamaica’s premier water service provider, distributes more than 90% of the potable water in the country, serving more than 2,000,000 persons daily through more than 400,000 legal customer accounts. More than 500,000 Jamaicans are also served by sewerage services provided by the NWC.


58 Company Register
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n/a n/a #26  45% 15%
58 Company Register


Data is held by the Companies Office of Jamaica. It is possible to manually search for companies by name, which will provide the company number, name, industry and status but no further details. There is no browsable or downloadable dataset.

The URL https://www.orcjamaica.com/CompanySearch.aspx provides a search engine and let's say you enter Sutherland & Gabbidon Enterprise a list of companies from any of the names will be printed. Sutherland & Gabbidon Enterprise began in the year 2015. However, the data via PDF format or to print online is not for free.


53 Location datasets
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n/a n/a #57  0% 5%
53 Location datasets


The postcode team built the website extensively throughout the world. The website currently provides postcode inquiry service around hundreds of countries in 50+ languages. There are more than 40,000,000 postcode / ZIP code data in http://PostCodeBase.com.

The postcode information for Jamaica are clearly stated but cannot be downloaded on the computer due to not being machine readable (PDF, CSV, etc).


99 Government Spending
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http://jis.gov.jm/government-s... n/a #84  0% 0%
99 Government Spending
URL: http://jis.gov.jm/government-spends-114m-content-tablet-computers/


No data available at a detailed transactional level.

Also, there is no evidence that the data is being collected except for a few government entities if one looks through: http://jis.gov.jm/government/documents/


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Reviewers

  • Georg Neumann
  • Jenny Molloy
  • Gil Zaretzer
  • Kamil Gregor
  • Tryggvi Björgvinsson
  • Mor Rubinstein
  • Zach Christensen
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