Brazilian Municipal Earmark Exposure by Budget Function, 2024 Constant BRL

Brazilian municipality-level measures of parliamentary earmark exposure, disaggregated by destination budget function such as health and education. The data was used in the dissertation 'Parliamentary Earmarks as Public Policy' and monetary variables are harmonized and converted to constant 2024 Brazilian Reais using the IPCA inflation index. The underlying earmark records were extracted on June 10, 2025, and the files represent the final analytical inputs for functional decomposition regressions.

Use Cases

• Modeling the impact of earmarks on municipal spending priorities based on functional decomposition.
• Comparing earmark exposure between health and education functions using per capita or total value measures.
• Analyzing differences between committed and paid earmark universes for budget forecasting.
• Investigating the distribution of parliamentary earmarks across Brazilian municipalities by budget function.

Strengths

• Data is harmonized and converted to constant 2024 BRL using the official IPCA inflation index.
• Exposure measures are disaggregated by specific budget functions (e.g., health, education) and earmark universes (paid vs. committed value).
• Files represent the final analytical inputs used directly in a dissertation's functional decomposition regressions.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Values correspond to a specific data extraction on June 10, 2025, and may differ from later official updates.

Provenance

Source

Author Sousa dos Reis Silva, Caio, associated with 'Emendas Parlamentares e Gastos Municipais'.

Collection Method

Earmark records were extracted from official public data sources, processed, and organized by destination budget function.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 21:49:56; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Brazil, municipality-level.