Municipal Investments and Securities Holdings for Linz, Austria

The 2018 clearance of accounts dataset from Linz, Austria, covers municipal investments and securities holdings. It includes the city's equity share in companies and year-end stock exchange prices for securities and investment funds. The data is provided by Cooperation OGD Österreich and Wikimedia Österreich under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze municipal investment strategies based on equity shares in companies.
• Track year-end valuation of public holdings based on stock exchange prices for securities.
• Benchmark municipal financial performance based on investment fund valuations.

Strengths

• Data is structured according to the Ordinance on Estimates and Clearance of Accounts (VRV), suggesting a standardized reporting format.
• License is explicitly stated as CC-BY-4.0, permitting broad reuse.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Cooperation OGD Österreich, Wikimedia Österreich

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official municipal accounting records as part of the annual clearance of accounts.

Time Range

2018

Geography

Linz, Austria