The 2014 Survey introduced new questions to assess the level of data publishing
in national portals. The Survey started its assessment with the basic premise
that all government data can be made public as long as there are no conflicting
privacy or national security concerns. During the initial assessments, researchers
looked for the mere presence of datasets in national government portals. In the
succeeding assessments, they evaluated and categorized the type of data available
according to sectoral focuses, such as education, health, finance, social security,
labour and environment. Table 8.1 summarizes the main features of Open
Government Data assessed in these national portals.