Austin Campaign Finance Report Details and Filing Totals

Campaign finance data from the City of Austin details reports filed by political committees. It includes information on report types, due dates, original filing dates, and transaction totals. This dataset links to a separate transaction detail table for individual contributions and expenditures.

Use Cases

• Analyze filing compliance patterns using report due dates and original filing dates.
• Compare aggregated transaction totals across different report types.
• Track report submission timelines for specific filers using original filing date data.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple formats including JSON, CSV, XML, and RDF.
• Includes a dedicated data dictionary for schema clarification.
• Managed by the authoritative City of Austin government organization.

Limitations

• The core dataset lacks individual transaction records, requiring joins to a separate table.
• Unknown row count and column structure limits pre-analysis of dataset scale and features.
• Temporal coverage and update frequency are not specified in the provided input.

Provenance

Source

City of Austin

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Geography

Austin, Texas, United States