Clearance of Accounts 2016: Open Orders in Linz

The dataset summarizes amounts committed by orders at the end of the 2016 fiscal year for the city of Linz, Austria. It is governed by the Ordinance on Estimates and Clearance of Accounts (VRV), which dictates the evidence and presentation format for budgetary estimates. The data is provided by Cooperation OGD Österreich and Wikimedia Österreich under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing year-end financial commitments based on the summary of orders and open orders.
• Studying municipal budget execution and clearance procedures based on the VRV ordinance framework.
• Comparing committed versus spent public funds for a specific fiscal year based on the 2016 time reference.

Strengths

• Data is structured according to a specific legal ordinance (VRV), suggesting a standardized format.
• The dataset has a defined geographic scope (Linz) and temporal scope (2016).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The data is available only in PDF format, which complicates automated analysis.

Provenance

Source

Cooperation OGD Österreich, Wikimedia Österreich

Time Range

2016

Geography

Linz, Austria