Reference · used by humans and AI alike

Assessment rubric

Six categories of risk to a federal dataset, each rated at one of four levels. The rubric is the work of the data policy experts behind America's Data Index, and we use it here as they wrote it; humans and agents are given identical wording.

Terms.

• ICR = Information Collection Request, the clearance a federal agency needs before it can collect data from the public. An expired ICR is a leading indicator that collection may lapse.
• OMB = the Office of Management and Budget, the White House office that grants that clearance and sets federal statistical policy.