Information Quality Database

Regulatory Checkbook maintains a database consisting of every publicly-available error correction request submitted to each federal agency, every agency response, every appeal, and every agency response to an appeal.

As of September 30, 2010:
  • 215 error correction requests were submitted.
  • Agencies had responded to 193 of them,after an average delay of 138 days.
  • 61 agency responses were appealed.
  • Agencies had responded to 61 appeals, after an average delay of 197 days.

Publications

Regulatory Checkbook has delivered multiple presentations on analyses of these data. A scholarly paper for publication in a peer-reviewed journal is in progress.