2018 Clearance of Accounts: Outstanding Administrative Claims for Linz

Annual data on outstanding claims owed to the City of Linz, Austria, as of December 31 each year. The dataset is governed by the Ordinance on Estimates and Clearance of Accounts (VRV), which defines the required evidence and presentation format. It is published by the Cooperation OGD Österreich and Wikimedia Österreich under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing municipal financial health based on the volume and nature of outstanding claims.
• Tracking year-over-year trends in administrative receivables for the City of Linz.
• Benchmarking local government financial practices against the standards set by the VRV ordinance.

Strengths

• Data is structured according to a formal national ordinance (VRV), suggesting standardized reporting.
• Provides a specific annual snapshot (as of December 31) for longitudinal comparison.

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

Collection Method

Likely compiled from municipal administrative records as part of the annual clearance of accounts process.

Time Range

Annual data, with values as at 31.12. of each year.

Geography

City of Linz, Austria.