Scope of the PSI information
Most of the PSI can be classified accordingly of the scope of the information. In this work will use this classification
| Scope | Description |
| Local | Based of or published by a City or any of its public depending entities. |
| Regional | Based of or published by a regional government or any of its public depending entities. In the case of Spain this category will be exactly the same of Comunidad Autónoma |
| National | Base of or published by a regional government or any of its public depending entities. |
| International | Any information extending the scope of before mentioned of coming from other international sources (i.e. EU, world bank, IMF, etc.) |
Table 5, Scope of PSI
The reason for this classification will be the need to find relations between data coming from the infomediaries and the sampled data from data sources (Red.es, 2011; Red.es, 2012).