Tabular expense data from the Government of British Columbia, consistent with March 2011 reorganization and accounting policies. It includes budgeted values for 2010 and actual expenditure totals for the fiscal years 2009-10 and 2010-11. The dataset is provided by the Government of British Columbia under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.
Use Cases
- Compare budgeted vs. actual government spending based on budgeted 2010 and actual 2010-11 values.
- Analyze year-over-year expenditure trends based on actual totals for 2009-10 and 2010-11.
- Track spending distribution across government ministries and programs based on the organizational hierarchy.
- Assess the impact of the March 2011 reorganization on expense reporting.
- Benchmark provincial program costs using historical actual expenditure totals.
Strengths
- Includes three distinct fiscal periods: budgeted 2010, actual 2010-11, and actual 2009-10.
- Data is structured to reflect a specific government reorganization and accounting policy update from March 2011.
- Published under the OGL-CA-2.0 license, facilitating open use and redistribution.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to open_canada, covering only a specific historical period.
Provenance
- Source
- Government of British Columbia
- Time Range
- 2009-2011
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:37:25.536214; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- British Columbia, Canada