Municipal Exposure to Parliamentary Earmarks in Brazil, 2025 Data

Aggregate municipality-year level data on exposure to parliamentary earmarks in Brazil, extracted on June 10, 2025. The files contain harmonized measures of earmark exposure, including binary indicators and per-capita and total values, converted to constant 2024 BRL. This data was used as final analytical inputs for regression workflows in the dissertation 'Parliamentary Earmarks as Public Policy'.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the relationship between earmark exposure and municipal budgetary composition based on the dissertation's substantive focus.
• Comparing the effects of actual financial disbursements versus budgetary commitments using the separate 'Paid Value' and 'Committed Value' universes.
• Modeling the prevalence of earmark receipt across municipalities and years using the binary indicator variable.
• Assessing the per-capita financial impact of earmarks on municipalities based on the aggregate earmark value per capita measure.

Strengths

• Data is harmonized at the municipality-year level, facilitating panel analysis.
• Values are converted to constant 2024 BRL using the official IPCA inflation index from IBGE, enabling temporal comparisons.
• Distinguishes between 'Paid Value' and 'Committed Value', which are analytically important for separating actual disbursements from budgetary commitments.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data reflects a snapshot from June 10, 2025, and may differ from updated government systems.

Provenance

Source

Underlying earmark records extracted from official Brazilian public data sources.

Collection Method

Aggregated and harmonized for econometric analysis in a doctoral dissertation.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is implied by the extraction date (June 10, 2025) but specific year range is not stated.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 21:50:20; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Municipality-level data for Brazil.