Howard County Capital Budget Expenditures and Budgets, 2016

Howard County Open Data provides a listing of all active capital projects as of September 15, 2016. The data includes multi-year financial figures for funds spent, encumbered, and budgeted, with notes on exclusions for school project funding. Columns suggest tracking by project number, category, title, and fiscal year.

Use Cases

• Analyzing budget allocation trends across project categories using Category and Budget columns.
• Tracking project financial execution over time using Spent/Encumbered, Unobligated, and Reporting_Year columns.
• Identifying specific capital initiatives and their fiscal year of origin using Project_Title, Captial_Project_No., and Fiscal_Year columns.

Strengths

• Data is structured with 9 columns including financial and categorical variables for analysis.
• Includes a specific note on a known data discrepancy for school project budgets totaling $211,105,000.

Limitations

• Last updated 2016-09-15 20:35:55; freshness should be verified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

opendata.howardcountymd.gov

Time Range

Data is up-to-date as of 9/15/2016; fiscal years represent project start dates.

Freshness

Last updated 2016-09-15 20:35:55.

Geography

Likely Howard County, Maryland, based on the source domain.