The Ordinance on Estimates and Clearance of Accounts (VRV) defines the evidence required for municipal financial reporting. This dataset contains the City of Linz's equity investments in urban and other companies, alongside year-end stock exchange prices for securities and investment funds. It is published under a CC-BY-4.0 license by Cooperation OGD Österreich and Wikimedia Österreich.
Use Cases
- Analyze municipal investment strategies based on equity holdings in urban and other companies.
- Track year-end valuation of public investment portfolios based on stock exchange prices.
- Benchmark municipal financial performance against the VRV ordinance framework.
Strengths
- Data is structured according to a specific legal ordinance (VRV), providing a formal reporting framework.
- Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, allowing for broad reuse.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- The last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- Cooperation OGD Österreich, Wikimedia Österreich
- Collection Method
- Likely compiled from municipal financial reports and stock exchange data.
- Time Range
- Data is for the 2016 clearance of accounts; year-end prices are as of 31 December.
- Geography
- Focus is on the City of Linz, Austria.