According to an NRC statement: “The survey will pop up at random on the NRC’s website and ask a brief series of questions about the user’s experience with and perceptions of various aspects of the website, including transparency. Other federal government agencies are using the same survey questions to provide metrics on transparency.”

The aim of the research is to measure how citizens view government transparency and to quantify the relationships between online transparency, trust and the likelihood of participating and collaborating with government agencies.