The dataset covers borrowings and borrowings for investments, as defined by the Ordinance on Estimates and Clearance of Accounts (VRV). It originates from a cooperation between OGD Österreich and Wikimedia Österreich and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license. The specific temporal coverage is the year 2018, and the geographic focus is the city of Linz.
Use Cases
- Analyze municipal debt levels based on reported borrowings.
- Study investment financing structures based on borrowings for investments.
- Assess government financial reporting compliance based on VRV ordinance guidelines.
Strengths
- Data is structured according to a specific legal ordinance (VRV), suggesting a formal reporting standard.
- The dataset has a clear temporal focus on the year 2018.
Limitations
- 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
- 2018
- Geography
- Linz, Austria