And they refuse to release data on government contracts or the details of senior government salaries.
To reduce such supply shortages, the Malawian government has developed a logistics system coordinating data on government-bought contraceptives with those from donors.
Because the results of the SDGs will take time to materialise, data on government efforts, such as policies, laws and investment, must be closely monitored.
Hanci measures political commitment to tackling hunger and undernutrition in 45 developing countries by looking at available data on government spending, policies and legal frameworks.
We have analysed the latest international data on government spending and found that the UK investment in public-funded research dropped to less than 0.5% of GDP in 2012 – its lowest point in over two decades.
Facebook had never published data on government requests for users' data until Friday because it had said the information was meaningless if it did not include national security requests.
Other possible problems include the development of "packing" algorithms — finding ways to pack cargo on airplanes more efficiently — and a whistle-blower game that might use recently available data on government spending in Brazil to look for corruption.
The others, including the finance, education and environment ministries, say they are awaiting more complete or precise data on government revenues, school attainment and deforestation, respectively all of which independent sources suggest have worsened.
The documents, provided to The New York Times by government investigators, said that during his tenure as an undersecretary of defense and then in the Pentagon's No. 2 post as deputy secretary of defense in the early years of the Clinton administration, Mr. Deutch "routinely entered data on government-owned computers at his office and home not designated to process classified information".
Much of the public data on government Web sites — things like school rankings, contractor and real estate licenses and information on emergency and public health services — is easy to access through the sites themselves, but is not always readily available through Web search engines.
