Open FI$Cal Survey

At FI$Cal, we're dedicated to making California's financial data useful and accessible. Please take a moment to let us know how we can best meet your needs with this quick 10-question survey!

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* 1. Who are you?

Member of the Public

Researcher

Legislator or legislative staff

Developer or civic technologist

Reporter

Staff of civic or "watchdog" entity

State employee

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* 2. What type(s) of data are you most interested in?

Expenditure data (how the state actually spent money)

Procurement data (what goods and services the state buys and who they buy it from)

Budget data (the state's plan for spending money)

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* 3. How do you want to interact with the state's financial data?

I want to read explanations / data stories

I want to interact with online charts and graphs

I want to download the raw data

I want API access to the data (a direct connection that allows developers to build their own apps using the data)

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* 4. What do you want to do with the state's financial data?

Learn the basics of how the state spends my money

Explore payments to vendors

Conduct my own analyses of state spending

Build my own app or service using the data

Compare budgeted to actual expenditures

Compare expenditures among different departments

See how state spending changes over time

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* 5. How often do you use state financial data?

Once a week or more

Once a month or more

A few times a year

Annually

Less than annually or never

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* 6. Where do you currently go to get California state financial data?

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* 7. How does the data currently available on Open FI$Cal align with your needs?

meets none of my needs

neutral

completely meets my needs

Clear

i We adjusted the number you entered based on the slider’s scale.

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* 8. How could the data better meet your needs?

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* 9. How would you rate the design of the Open FI$Cal website?

unattractive and hard to navigate

neutral

attractive and easy to navigate

Clear

i We adjusted the number you entered based on the slider’s scale.

Open FI$Cal Survey

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* 1. Who are you?

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* 2. What type(s) of data are you most interested in?

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* 3. How do you want to interact with the state's financial data?

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* 4. What do you want to do with the state's financial data?

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* 5. How often do you use state financial data?

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* 6. Where do you currently go to get California state financial data?

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* 7. How does the data currently available on Open FI$Cal align with your needs?

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* 8. How could the data better meet your needs?

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* 9. How would you rate the design of the Open FI$Cal website?

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* 10. How could we improve site design?

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* 11. Is there anything else you want us to know?