Clearance of Accounts 2013: Personnel and Pension Expenditure for Linz

Personnel and pension expenditure data for the city of Linz, Austria, for the 2013 fiscal year, structured according to the Ordinance on Estimates and Clearance of Accounts (VRV). The dataset is published by Cooperation OGD Österreich and Wikimedia Österreich under a Creative Commons license. It likely contains total staff costs broken down by budgetary posts.

Use Cases

• Analyze municipal personnel cost structures based on the breakdown by budgetary post.
• Benchmark pension expenditure for a specific year based on the 2013 time coverage.
• Study the implementation of budgetary accounting standards based on the VRV ordinance framework.
• Track public spending in specific categories based on posts filtered to start with '5' or '7'.

Strengths

• Data is structured according to a formal government ordinance (VRV), suggesting a standardized format.
• The dataset has a clear geographic scope (Linz) and temporal scope (2013).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Cooperation OGD Österreich, Wikimedia Österreich

Collection Method

Likely extracted from official municipal clearance of accounts documents.

Time Range

2013

Geography

Linz, Austria