Québec Government Annual Expenditure Budgets

Expenditure budgets for Québec's budgetary ministries, agencies, and special funds are tabled annually by the Conseil du Trésor. The dataset contains the detailed spending plans presented to the National Assembly. Data is published by the Government and Municipalities of Québec and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze year-over-year changes in ministry_expenditure_budget allocations to identify fiscal policy trends.
• Compare planned spending across budgetary_agencies and special_funds for a given fiscal year.
• Model the relationship between agency_type and budget_allocations using historical expenditure data.
• Track the evolution of total_expenditure_budget for specific ministries over multiple annual cycles.

Strengths

• Data is published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Covers multiple entity types including budgetary ministries, agencies, and special funds.

Limitations

• Specific data volume metrics like row count and file size are unknown.
• Core data is delivered in unstructured formats (HTML, PDF) alongside CSV, which may complicate analysis.

Provenance

Source

Conseil du Trésor, Government and Municipalities of Québec.

Collection Method

Officially tabled budgetary documents presented to the National Assembly.

Time Range

Annual coverage, specific start year unknown.

Freshness

Updated annually, with a recorded last update date in April 2026.

Geography

Province of Québec, Canada.