The Comparsion of 2006 and 2007's access requests in Shanghai

The number of requests in 2007 is 6485. This is a decrease of 13.91% compared to 2006. 6852 and 5893 requests have been responded in 2006 and 2007 respectively. The percentage of full-disclosure responses in 2007 is lower than that of last year (compared with 67.61% in 2007 and 75.06% in 2006). However, the percentage of refusals increases from 20.48% in 2006 to 27.32% in 2007, and more refusals fall within the scope of the six stipulated exemptions (compared with 25.34% in 2007 and only 13.40% in 2006). It indicates that the quality of requests or the public bodies’ capacity to handle FOI requests is increasing.

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