Get involved data description
Series Name: Open Government Consultation Data: 2017-18 Get Involved Questionnaire

Key words: 
Open Government Action Plan, Consultation, Consultations, National Action Plan, NAP, Public Consultation, Public Consultations, Comments, OGP, Open Government Partnership, What We Heard, Canada’s 4th Plan on Open Government, Biennial Plan on Open Government, #OpenGovCan
Official Languages: 
The questionnaire was available in English and French, qualitative responses are presented in the language in which they were provided.
Overview: 
This dataset includes qualitative and quantitative responses from 8212 participants in a 19-question questionnaire that was available via open.canada.ca from October 2017 to March 2018. The questionnaire was conducted as the first part of engagement leading to the creation of Canada’s 4th plan on open government. This is part of Canada’s membership in the Open Government Partnership. 
Most participants came from pop-up notices that invited visitors to the How Government Works pages on Canada.ca to take the questionnaire. The pop-up notices ran between October 24 and December 14 and generated 655,182 views with 19,277 clicks to the questionnaire.  The questionnaire was also promoted via the open government mailing list, twitter account and notices on open.canada.ca consultation pages. 
This data is being released after a review for personal information but before any detailed analysis of the qualitative data, therefore, comments are not coded for theme or topic. The Open Government team would be very interested in any analysis you may conduct on this data, please get in touch at open-ouvert@tbs-sct.gc.ca
Description of the data
Please note that the first two rows of this data set are headers, one in French and the other in English. 
Questions are numbered QX. and where there are multiple responses, they are labeled QXR, where X represents the question number. 

Questions 1-6: Transparency, Accountability and Participation
For each of these topics participants first answered a yes/no question on whether the topic was important to them, if they answered no, they skipped the details and moved to the next topic. If they answered yes, they were presented with a series of statements and asked to choose three. In the data the numerical values represent the order of the answer and should be interpreted as binary (if a number exists it represents a positive choice, not a value, if there is no number, then the user did not choose that option).  
Each of the topic questions also has an “other” option that allowed the user to enter free text. 
Questions 7-8: Priorities
This question asks participants to select three high level government outcomes from the 16 choices in the Treasury Board  Whole-of-government framework. Question 8 provided users with the opportunity to describe other priorities as free text. 
Questions 9: Interests
Participants chose from a “Check all that apply” list and a free text “other” option. 
Questions 10-12: Involvement and Channels
If participants answered yes to question 10 they were presented with a “Check all that apply” list of interests and a free text “other” option, followed by a similar question about channels and another “other” free text option.  
Questions 13-14: Satisfaction
Participants indicated their level of satisfaction with open government services on a scale of 1-6 with 5 being very dissatisfied and 6 being not applicable. Question 14 provided a free text option for participants to elaborate. 
Questions 15-17: Location
Users were asked if they lived in Canada yes/no and provided with a free text option for the closest major city, some participants used the free text option to indicate their country if they were not from Canada. This city data was manually harmonized, and the Country and Province populated during data clean-up. 
Question 18: Knowledge or Experience
This is a free text question where participants could volunteer areas of expertise to the open government movement. 
Question 19: Sector
This question asked users to select one sector and provided a free text “other” option. 
Question 20: Organization
Users were asked if they represented an organization and if so to indicate that organization in a free text field. The free text answers are considered potential personal identifiers and have been redacted in the public release. 
Question 21: Email sign-up
Users were asked if they wanted to join the mailing list yes/no and if so, to provide an email address. The email addresses are not included in the public data set. 

Questions and answers:
The original data source was online survey software this section provides the text used to generate the questionnaire. 
1. Is transparency an important issue for you?	
2. What are your three most important government transparency topics?
•	Transparency 
•	Being able to find the person in government I need to talk to. 
•	Learning about government policies and programs. 
•	Being able to request and get documents about government operations or decisions easily. 
•	Learning about the work of government officials. 
•	Being able to find out about government spending. 
•	As much as possible, having access to the same data as government. 
•	Viewing information on everyday government business like spending on hospitality or job reclassifications (also known as Proactive Disclosure). 
•	The Canadian Government working with other governments (state, municipal, provincial, territorial or international) to help them be more open. 
•	Transparency Other	

3. Is government accountability an important issue for you?
4. What are your three most important government accountability needs? 
•	Accountability 
•	Keeping an eye on government spending and potential conflicts of interest. 
•	Understanding who seeks to influence government decision making (e.g. through lobbying). 
•	Having the information available to hold government accountable. 
•	Being able to track progress on government’s commitments. 
•	Strengthening privacy and data protection for Canadians.
•	Accountability Other	

5. Is citizen participation in government an important issue for you
6. What are the three most important ways to participate and interact with government? 
•	Being given an opportunity to provide my views and concerns to government. 
•	Being able to provide input into government decision making. 
•	Being able to interact with other Canadians on issues of shared concern. 
•	Being able to collaborate directly with government on issues I care about. 
•	Simplifying my interaction with government by allowing government departments to share my information with each other. 
•	Being able to make suggestions on improving government services. 
•	Being able to track the status of my data/information request or suggestion. 
•	Participation Other 

7. The federal government works to improve the 16 strategic outcomes listed below. What are the three most important outcomes to be included in Canada’s 4th Plan on Open Government?
•	Income security and employment 
•	Economic growth 
•	Innovation and knowledge based economy 
•	Clean and healthy environment 
•	Fair and secure workplace 
•	Healthy Canadians 
•	Safe and secure Canada 
•	Diverse society that promotes linguistic duality and social inclusion 
•	Vibrant Canadian culture and heritage 
•	Safe and secure world through international engagement 
•	Global poverty reduction through sustainable development 
•	Strong and mutually beneficial North American partnership 
•	Prosperous Canada through global commerce 
•	Strong and independent democratic institutions 
•	Transparent, accountable and responsive Federal government 
•	Well managed and efficient government operations 
•	Priority Other

"8. Did we miss anything?
 If the previous questions did not speak to you, please tell us about the important aspects of open government that drive your interest:   If you have more than one additional item, please list them in priority."
9 Which statements best describe your interest in open government? Check all that apply.
•	I’m new to open government and curious 
•	I’m interested in learning more and maybe getting involved 
•	I like to make web applications and explore how things work technically 
•	I like to sift through data and information to find answers and insights 
•	I am looking for opportunities to use open data to start a new business 
•	I am looking for opportunities to enhance an existing business 
•	I am looking for opportunities to make society better 
•	I support open government as a tool to make democracy stronger 
•	I provide feedback to the government only when I am asked about an issue I care about 
•	I am looking for opportunities to hold government accountable 
•	I build collections of data and information around a particular topic 
•	I am not that interested in open government actually 
•	I prefer not to answer this question 
•	Interest Other 

10 Would you like to be more involved in developing Canada’s 4th Plan on Open Government
11. What would you like to be involved in? Check all that apply.
•	I would like to share my knowledge 
•	I would like to give you feedback on draft documents 
•	I would like to help you organize or run an engagement workshop on open government 
•	I would like to promote events for developing Canada’s 4th Plan on Open Government within my network 
•	I would like to attend a workshop 
•	Other I can.. 

12. How would you like to be involved? Check all that apply.
•	open.canada.ca 
•	Facebook 
•	Twitter 
•	LinkedIn 
•	Reddit 
•	Webinars 
•	Github 
•	Google Docs 
•	GCcollab 
•	Questionnaires like this one 
•	In person: Small groups 
•	In person: Larger groups 
•	Channel  Other 

13.  Satisfaction	
•	Please indicate your satisfaction with the current open government data and information services on Open.Canada.ca 

14. Please tell us why

15. The country I live in is:
16. Province (note this question was not asked but data was added later based on response to Q17)
17.  The city or town that I live closest to is:

18. If you have knowledge or experience with a open government topic that you would be willing to share please tell us about it:
19. The sector or group that I identify most closely with is: 
•	Academia
•	Business
•	Community or Non-profit
•	Individual
•	First Nations, Inuit or Métis government or organization
•	Provincial/Territorial Government
•	Media
•	Municipal Government
•	Federal Government
•	Retired
•	Student
•	Other: 

20. I am answering this questionnaire on behalf of an organization: 
•	The organization I represent is: 

21. Email sign-up	
•	1=no 0=yes