2017 Municipal Budget 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 municipal budget forecasting accuracy based on documented discrepancies.
• Study patterns in government accounting adjustments based on comments on credit changes.
• Benchmark fiscal performance across years based on the 2017 clearance of accounts data.

Strengths

• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Focuses on a specific fiscal year (2017) and location (Linz).

Limitations

• Data is provided only in PDF format, limiting machine-readability.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Cooperation OGD Österreich, Wikimedia Österreich

Time Range

2017

Geography

Linz, Austria