Clearance of Accounts 2016: Municipal Debt and Servicing Data for Linz

Municipal financial data from Linz, Austria, detailing borrowings and investment loans for the 2016 fiscal year. The dataset is structured according to the Ordinance on Estimates and Clearance of Accounts (VRV), which governs evidence and presentation standards. It is published under a CC-BY-4.0 license by a cooperation of Austrian open government data organizations.

Use Cases

• Analyzing municipal debt levels based on the borrowings data mentioned in the description
• Comparing investment loan structures for local governments based on the borrowings for investments data
• Studying compliance with national accounting ordinances based on the VRV framework described

Strengths

• Data is structured according to a specific national ordinance (VRV), suggesting a standardized format.
• Explicitly covers borrowings and borrowings for investments for a single fiscal year (2016).

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

Time Range

2016

Geography

Linz, Austria