City of Linz Municipal Liabilities from 2017 Financial Accounts

Liabilities assumed by the City of Linz for its companies and other entities, as part of the 2017 financial clearance of accounts. The data is structured according to the Austrian Ordinance on Estimates and Clearance of Accounts (VRV). It is published by Cooperation OGD Österreich and Wikimedia Österreich under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing municipal financial risk based on liabilities for city-owned companies.
• Benchmarking local government financial health based on reported liabilities.
• Studying the application of the VRV ordinance in structuring municipal financial data.

Strengths

• Data is structured according to a specific national ordinance (VRV), suggesting a standardized format.
• The dataset has a clear, permissive license (CC-BY-4.0).

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 financial reports.

Time Range

2017

Geography

Linz, Austria