Linz Municipal Building Use Cost Apportionment for 2018

The dataset details the 2018 clearance of accounts for the city of Linz, specifically the apportionment of office building management costs among various departments. It is based on the Ordinance on Estimates and Clearance of Accounts (VRV) and was aggregated by Cooperation OGD Österreich and Wikimedia Österreich. The data covers expenditure minus revenue for subsection 0290 (office building).

Use Cases

• Analyze departmental cost burdens based on apportioned building use expenses.
• Benchmark municipal financial transparency practices based on the VRV ordinance framework.
• Model public sector overhead allocation based on expenditure minus revenue data.

Strengths

• Data is structured according to a specific legal ordinance (VRV), providing a formal framework.
• The dataset focuses on a defined financial subsection (0290) for office buildings.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• 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

Collection Method

Apportionment of costs according to the Ordinance on Estimates and Clearance of Accounts (VRV).

Time Range

2018

Geography

Linz, Austria