id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_znamitx5r5eulkccgakvpn6ps4 Joanna Clifton-Sprigg Freedom of Information (FOI) as a data collection tool for social scientists 2020 14 .pdf application/pdf 8042 700 56 that observable characteristics of the local area, police force and universities neither determine whether the request was fulfilled, nor the speed of response, suggesting that the data Specifically, we document the determinants of two particular FOI requests we made—i) for the data on hate crime the FOI requests and provide data within 20 working days (in case of UK, for example), they police force determine whether the request for provision of hate crime data was not fulfilled at A request for hate crime data from the UK police forces FOI request we consider police force (PF) characteristics including total size, overall funding Overall, we conclude that the above characteristics do not determine the responsiveness of police forces to our FOI request. Table A) of the regressions using two alternative measures: i) whether the police force provided all requested data (i.e., monthly number of hate crimes by type, by ethnicity of victim ./cache/work_znamitx5r5eulkccgakvpn6ps4.pdf ./txt/work_znamitx5r5eulkccgakvpn6ps4.txt