Stats for close options?

Question

Is there any statistics for the various close options? Additionally how many questions of each close type are eventually reopened?

If not globally available, can a mod post the information for us?

Answer 1

Here's my attempt at a data explorer query based on a few existing queries. The month shown is based on the creation date of the original post not the date it was actually closed or re-opened. I haven't given it much of a check over but the results look fairly plausible.

Monthly totals of questions closed / re-opened by close reason

Just a few notes:

• The data explorer extract happens early on a Monday morning I believe so the current month results can be up to a week out of date.

• Deleted posts aren't exported to the data dump, so older data will be skewed because many of the closed questions will have been deleted as per How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion?

Answer 2

Found something on meta.so, had to play with the filters to show the data.

https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/advanced-search#page=1&pagesize=100&fromdate=2014-03-01&todate=2014-03-14&order=desc&sort=activity&closed=True&filter=!)4rx.eTsSSR1zWcYugLAn5C3EYgk&site=electronics&run=true

Example result:

{
"closed_details": {
"on_hold": true,
"description": "This question appears to be off-topic. The users who voted to close gave this specific reason: Questions on the repair of consumer electronics, appliances, or other devices must involve specific troubleshooting steps and demonstrate a good understanding of the underlying design of the device being repaired. See also: "Is asking on how to fix a faulty circuit on topic?" – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams, PeterJ, alexan_e, Joe Hass, Dave Tweed\r\n ",
"reason": "off-topic"
},
"creation_date": 1394696962,
"link": "Have I destroyed my device",
"closed_reason": "off-topic",
"title": "Have I destroyed my device"
},