PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Electronic Government (5 February 2015)

Question Asked

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the 10 (a) most frequently accessed and (b) least frequently accessed datasets published on data.gov.uk are.

Asked by:
Lucy Powell (Labour)

Answer

There are currently over 19,000 published datasets on DGU.

The site usage report on data.gov.uk lists the top twenty most frequently viewed datasets. The top 10 are:

  1. English Indices of Deprivation 2010

  2. Bona Vacantia Unclaimed Estates and Adverts

  3. Building Price and Cost Indices

  4. Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) boundaries

  5. Road Safety Data

  6. Live traffic information from the Highways Agency

  7. Social Trends

  8. Statistics on Obesity, Physical Activity and Diet, England

  9. National Public Transport Access Nodes (NaPTAN)

  10. Health Survey for England

We do not report on the least viewed datasets.


Answered by:
Lord Maude of Horsham (Conservative)
10 February 2015

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