Bangladesh / 2013 34% open

Bangladesh is ranked #47 in the 2013 Index

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Rank	Dataset	Breakdown	Location (URL)	Format	Info	Prev.	Score
36	National Statistics		http://www.bbs.gov.bd/home.asp...	PDF		n/a	55%
36	National Statistics URL: http://www.bbs.gov.bd/home.aspx Format: PDF No licence specified
13	Transport Timetables		http://www.railway.gov.bd/all_...	n/a		n/a	45%
13	Transport Timetables URL: http://www.railway.gov.bd/all_ic_mail_shedule.asp Management of public transport varies in Bangladesh. While rail communication is fully run and managed by the government, the road and water transport is mostly managed by the private sector where the government-run services are also available. Timetable for passenger and goods services of railway are publicly available, so is the government-run Airlines and public buses. Time schedule of transport services operated by the private sector are not publicly available, though. Cannot find licence information.
21	Postcodes / Zipcodes		http://www.bangladeshpost.gov....	HTML		n/a	45%
21	Postcodes / Zipcodes URL: http://www.bangladeshpost.gov.bd/postcode.asp Format: HTML No mention of licensing so not open data
34	Government Budget		http://www.mof.gov.bd/en/index...	pdf		n/a	45%
34	Government Budget URL: http://www.mof.gov.bd/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=183&Itemid=1# Format: pdf On http://www.mof.gov.bd/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=68&Itemid=1# can't find information on licensing; PDFs only so not machine readable; need to download many PDFs so not available in bulk . Various forms of information available including previous years from http://www.mof.gov.bd/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=235&Itemid=1
47	Legislation		http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/al...	html		n/a	35%
47	Legislation URL: http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/alp_index_update.php Format: html no mention of licensing, can't see option for bulk download nor of the data in anything apart from PDF or viewable on website (so, not machine readable)
51	Election Results		http://www.ecs.gov.bd/English/...	n/a		n/a	35%
51	Election Results URL: http://www.ecs.gov.bd/English/MenuTemplate1.php?Parameter_MenuID=19 The site is not well maintained. There were instants when I had clicked on broken links of result data. eg on http://www.ecs.gov.bd/English/MenuTemplate1.php?Parameter_MenuID=69 There is no sign of any licence.
34	Pollutant Emissions		http://www.moef.gov.bd/html/st...	PDF		n/a	35%
34	Pollutant Emissions URL: http://www.moef.gov.bd/html/state_of_env/state_of_env.html Format: PDF The data is very backdated. It was last updated on 2001! There is a PDF report on air pollution. It is like an academic paper and there is no licence visible.
43	National Map		http://www.sob.gov.bd/#pgprew	n/a	n/a	n/a	30%
51	Company Register		n/a	n/a		n/a	10%
51	Company Register The information for publicly quoted companies can be found on the websites of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) (http://www.dsebd.org/company%20listing.php) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE)(http://www.cse.com.bd/company_info_url.php). It is to be noted that DSE and CSE is fully under government control. It looks like relevant information for all companies is gathered on http://www.roc.gov.bd/ but cannot see how to access the information.
38	Government Spending		http://www.mof.gov.bd/en/index...	n/a		n/a	0%
38	Government Spending URL: http://www.mof.gov.bd/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=79&Itemid=1 A budget is declared every year in the national assembly. But stats regarding the efficiency of the implementation of the budget is not published that openly. There are PDFs showing aggregate spend but no transactional level information.

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