Two tables present a 10-year view of British Columbia's government expenses. Table A11 details expense by function with actual, forecast, and planned values, while Table A12 provides supplementary metrics like per capita expense and percent of GDP. The data was published by the Government of British Columbia and last updated on the open_canada platform in April 2026.
Use Cases
- Forecasting government expenditure trends based on planned values for 2013-14 to 2015-16.
- Analyzing per capita public spending efficiency based on inflation-adjusted per capita expense in 2015 dollars.
- Modeling the relationship between government expense and economic growth based on expense as a percent of nominal GDP.
- Calculating average annual change in spending across different government functions.
Strengths
- Covers a 10-year time range from 2006/07 through 2015/16.
- Includes multiple data types: actual, forecast, and planned values.
- Provides supplementary economic context with metrics like per capita expense and percent of GDP.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to its 2006-2016 coverage.
Provenance
- Source
- Government of British Columbia
- Time Range
- 2006/07 to 2015/16
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:29:30.688980; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- British Columbia, Canada