Clearance of Accounts 2020: Municipal Assets and Personnel Data for Linz

2020 municipal accounts data for the city of Linz, Austria, detailing assets, personnel, and financial flows. The dataset comprises multiple annexes covering staff data, financial cross-sections, transfer payments, reserves, debts, internal charges, fixed assets, cultural goods, leasing, and direct participations. It is published by Cooperation OGD Österreich and Wikimedia Österreich under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing municipal staffing costs and headcount based on detailed personnel data.
• Studying the derivation of financing balances according to European System of Accounts (ESVG 2010) rules.
• Tracking intergovernmental financial transfers between federal, state, EU, and other municipalities.
• Assessing the composition and service of municipal debt based on detailed loan breakdowns.
• Cataloging non-valued cultural assets held by the local government.

Strengths

• Data covers the complete 2020 fiscal year for a specific municipality.
• Structured according to the Austrian Budgetary and Final Account Ordinance (VRV), providing a standardized framework.
• Includes multiple specific annexes (4, 5b, 6a-6k) detailing distinct aspects of municipal finance.

Limitations

• Data is provided in PDF format, which complicates automated analysis.
• Row count and file size are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the annex descriptions.

Provenance

Source

Cooperation OGD Österreich, Wikimedia Österreich

Collection Method

Likely compiled as part of the mandatory municipal accounting and reporting process for Linz.

Time Range

2020

Geography

Linz, Austria