Financial statements from Austrian municipalities for the year 2017, covering the clearance of municipal accounts for revenue and expenditure. The data was published by Statistics Austria (Statistik Austria) in cooperation with OGD Österreich and Wikimedia Österreich. The dataset is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.
Use Cases
- Analyze municipal revenue sources based on the described revenue categories.
- Compare expenditure patterns across Austrian municipalities based on the described expenditure categories.
- Model municipal financial health based on the described revenue and expenditure data.
- Benchmark local government fiscal performance for the year 2017.
Strengths
- Data originates from the official national statistics office of Austria (Statistik Austria).
- The dataset is licensed under the permissive CC-BY-4.0 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.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- Statistics Austria (Statistik Austria)
- Collection Method
- Likely compiled from official municipal account submissions.
- Time Range
- 2017
- Geography
- Austria (municipal level)