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Uruguay 66% open

Uruguay is ranked #7 in the 2015 Index
Uruguay's overall Index ranking is up from #13 in 2014

Rank Dataset Breakdown Location (URL) Format Info Prev. (2014) Score
1 Procurement tenders
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https://catalogodatos.gub.uy/d... RSS, XML n/a n/a 100%
1 Location datasets
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https://catalogodatos.gub.uy/d... KML, SHP n/a #1  100% 100%
1 Land Ownership
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http://catastro.mef.gub.uy/102... CSV, ... n/a 100%
1 Land Ownership
URL: http://catastro.mef.gub.uy/10251/10/areas/datos-abiertos.html
Format: CSV, Shapefile, WFS

Land Owners name is not public data in Uruguay. Shapefile and WFS data at: http://catastro.mef.gub.uy/12360/10/areas/geocatastro.html


1 Company Register
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https://catalogodatos.gub.uy/d... CSV #5  90% 100%
1 Company Register
URL: https://catalogodatos.gub.uy/dataset/registro-de-empresas-industriales
Format: CSV

The Register for Industrial Companies only accounts for a minority of companies in Uruguay, but is freely downloadable in bulk and available as open data. It is updated monthly.

Previously, it was also possible to download data on Small and Medium Enterprises (which account for the other 80-90% of companies), but the URL currently seems to be down. http://www3.ine.gub.uy:82/Anda4/index.php/catalog/677

However, the data on small and medium enterprises is available in the following Fusion Tables: https://www.google.com/fusiontables/data?docid=146Oe8VPNVodEEXydYnWKJkjXVjvjYZ6ulA9jZN41#rows:id=1

https://www.google.com/fusiontables/data?docid=14QRQ0B0avlPeI5QV89-VWPc27k-H0nu582dYMO4H#map:id=3

This data corresponds to the year 2014.


1 Government Budget
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https://catalogodatos.gub.uy/d... CSV, ... #1  100% 100%
1 Government Budget
URL: https://catalogodatos.gub.uy/dataset/credito-presupuestal-asignado-y-ejecutado
Format: CSV, TXT, XLS

Metadata on the contents is provided, as a TXT file that describes each of the fields in the CSV files (description in Spanish)


23 National Statistics
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https://catalogodatos.gub.uy/o... CSV, ... #1  100% 90%
23 National Statistics
URL: https://catalogodatos.gub.uy/organization/ine
Format: CSV, TSV, XLS, DAT, dBase, PDF

Plenty more information available at: - http://www.agev.opp.gub.uy/observatorio/servlet/mainindicadoresap?41018,41018 - http://www.ine.gub.uy -National Accounts info up to 2014. Some 2015 Unemployment data available here in PDF format. Figures for GDP, Unemployment, Population for 2014 available in PDF here.


15 National Map
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http://descarga-cdp-ide.agesic... raster, ... #34  50% 70%
15 National Map
URL: http://descarga-cdp-ide.agesic.gub.uy
Format: raster, vector

Infraestrutura de Datos Espaciales (IDEuy) is responsible for aggregating information on geospacial data produced by different government agencies.

Beyond the linked data, one can find other maps visualizations (http://ide.uy/inicio/herramientas/visualizadores-de-mapas/visualizadores-de-mapas some of them with downloadable data), a metadata catalogue (http://ide.uy/inicio/herramientas/catalogo+de+metadatos/catalogo+de+metadatos) and geoservices (http://ide.uy/inicio/herramientas/geoservicios).


20 Election Results
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http://www.corteelectoral.gub...., Excel #36  60% 70%
20 Election Results
URL: http://www.corteelectoral.gub.uy/gxpsites/page.aspx?3,26,453,O,S,0,
Format: Excel

Lots of information beyond votes published (including campaign financing, government programmes, and more): http://www.corteelectoral.gub.uy/gxpsites/page.aspx?3,26,453,O,S,0,

This URL correspond to national elections, but the site has information for local, ballotagge and other.


28 Weather forecast
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http://www.meteorologia.com.uy... n/a n/a n/a 45%
39 Legislation
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http://www.impo.com.uy/cgi-bin... HTML #33  45% 45%
39 Legislation
URL: http://www.impo.com.uy/cgi-bin/bases/consultaBases.cgi
Format: HTML

Registration requirement from last year eliminated.


41 Water Quality
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http://www.ose.com.uy/calidad_... n/a n/a 20%
41 Water Quality
URL: http://www.ose.com.uy/calidad_del_agua/calidad_del_agua.html


Sparse information from specific studies has been compiled by an NGO (http://vidasilvestre.org.uy/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/informeaguafinalcm1.pdf) but no official source for national-level water quality data.

On a local level, updated and quality information can be found for the capital (Montevideo): http://www.montevideo.gub.uy/ciudad-y-cultura/deportes-y-playas/playasciudad-y-cultura/deportes-y-playas/playasciudad-y-cultura/deportes-y-playas/playas/metodologia-de/informes


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


The national transactional spending data is not available but aggregated results are available and very fresh which indicates the data exists and is digital.

Procurement data (which is a big subset of national spending data but not counted as part of this dataset) is however available as open data. It can be downloaded in bulk from: http://comprasestatales.gub.uy/inicio/datos-abiertos/interfaz-consulta-publicaciones /interfaz-consultas-publicaciones.

XML files in a dataset in Uruguay's CKAN instace at https://catalogodatos.gub.uy/dataset/compras-estatales correspond to the codelists used in the actual data.


65 Pollutant Emissions
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n/a n/a #73  0% 10%
65 Pollutant Emissions


it seem the data exist for one city -Montevideo it was mentioned in two document

Air Quality in Latin America: An Overview Produced by the Clean Air Institute http://www.cleanairinstitute.org/calidaddelaireamericalatina/cai-report-english.pdf World Health Organization http://www.who.int/quantifying_ehimpacts/national/countryprofile/aap_pm_database_may2014.xls?ua=1


Contributors

Reviewers

  • Georg Neumann
  • Daniela Mattern
  • Gil Zaretzer
  • Pierre Chrzanowski
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  • Kamil Gregor
  • Tryggvi Björgvinsson
  • Mor Rubinstein
  • Zach Christensen
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  • Rebecca Sentance
  • Neal Bastek
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