Municipal Liabilities for City-Owned Companies in Linz, 2012

Liabilities assumed by the City of Linz for its own companies and other entities, documented according to the Ordinance on Estimates and Clearance of Accounts (VRV). The dataset originates from the Cooperation OGD Österreich and Wikimedia Österreich and is provided under a CC-BY-4.0 license. It covers the year 2012.

Use Cases

• Analyze municipal financial risk exposure based on liabilities for city-owned companies.
• Study the structure of public sector accounting and reporting standards based on the VRV ordinance.
• Benchmark municipal financial obligations for the city of Linz against other regions.
• Examine the financial support provided by a municipality to its corporate entities.

Strengths

• Data is structured according to a specific legal ordinance (VRV), suggesting a standardized reporting format.
• The dataset has a clear geographic and organizational scope, focusing on the City of Linz.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Cooperation OGD Österreich, Wikimedia Österreich

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official municipal accounts and reports.

Time Range

2012

Geography

Linz, Austria