Financial expenditures of Correctional Services in Nova Scotia for administering custodial and community-based sentences. The dataset includes gross expenditures, per capita expenditures calculated using Nova Scotia's total population, and average daily cost in adult custody calculated using the adult offender population. The source for financial information is the Nova Scotia Department of Justice, Financial Services Corporate Service Unit.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in correctional system spending based on gross expenditures
- Benchmark per capita correctional costs against other jurisdictions based on population-derived metrics
- Model the drivers of average daily custody costs based on offender population and administrative factors
Strengths
- Financial data sourced from the Nova Scotia Department of Justice, Financial Services Corporate Service Unit
- Population data sourced from Statistics Canada Table 17-10-0009-01
- Dataset is available in multiple formats including CSV, XML, and RDF
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
- Nova Scotia Department of Justice, Financial Services Corporate Service Unit
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:32:02.584872
- Geography
- Nova Scotia, Canada