2017 Municipal Account Discrepancies for Linz, Austria

Comments on credit changes and deviations from estimates for the 2017 clearance of accounts in Linz, Austria. The dataset documents major discrepancies between initial budget estimates and final invoices. It was published by Cooperation OGD Österreich and Wikimedia Österreich under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze the magnitude and frequency of budget deviations based on the documented discrepancies.
• Assess municipal financial planning accuracy based on comments regarding credit changes.
• Benchmark local government fiscal performance based on the clearance of accounts data.

Strengths

• Data is explicitly focused on a single fiscal year (2017) and municipality (Linz).
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Cooperation OGD Österreich, Wikimedia Österreich

Time Range

2017

Geography

Linz, Austria