Canadian Government Consolidated Specified Purpose Accounts, Fiscal Year Balances

Public Services and Procurement Canada publishes consolidated specified purpose accounts from the Public Accounts of Canada. The dataset presents a summary of balances and transactions for accounts where legislation requires revenues and expenses to be tracked for specific purposes. This non-official record is updated annually, with the most recent official version available from the Receiver General.

Use Cases

• Analyzing earmarked government revenue and expenditure flows based on legislated purpose accounts.
• Tracking annual balances for specific government funds based on fiscal year summaries.
• Researching the financial scale and activity of legislatively mandated programs based on transaction data.

Strengths

• Data is derived from the official Public Accounts of Canada, an authoritative government source.
• Published in multiple formats (XML, CSV, HTML) for different user needs.
• Released under the open OGL-CA-2.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Public Services and Procurement Canada, based on the Public Accounts of Canada.

Collection Method

Extracted from the table in Section 4 of Volume I of the Public Accounts.

Time Range

Annual fiscal year data.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 16:35:50.247590; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Canada.