British Columbia's functional spending data includes budgeted and actual values for September 2012, September 2011, and full-year figures for 2011-12 and 2012-13. The Government of British Columbia published this tabular report in Excel and HTML formats. It provides a snapshot of planned versus realized expenditures across government functions.
Use Cases
- Compare budgeted versus actual government spending based on the budgeted and actual values mentioned.
- Analyze year-over-year changes in functional expenditures based on the actual values for 2011-12 and 2012-13.
- Benchmark quarterly spending performance based on the September 30, 2012 and 2011 actual figures.
Strengths
- Data includes both budgeted and actual spending figures, enabling variance analysis.
- Provides temporal comparisons with data for September 2011, September 2012, and full fiscal years 2011-12 and 2012-13.
- Published by the authoritative Government of British Columbia.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to open_canada, covering only a specific historical period.
Provenance
- Source
- Government of British Columbia
- Time Range
- 2011-2013
- Geography
- British Columbia, Canada