Dutch Government Purchase Expenditure Data for 2019 from the Ministry of the Interior

Purchase expenditure data for 2019 from the Dutch national government, compiled by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. The dataset details spending on goods and services across all ministries and departments, used for internal category management and annual parliamentary reporting. It is published under a CC0-1.0 license on the Dutch open data portal.

Use Cases

• Analyzing government procurement patterns based on annual purchase expenditure data.
• Estimating the share of spending with small and medium-sized enterprises based on the reporting purpose mentioned.
• Benchmarking ministry-level spending on goods and services based on the aggregated information described.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the authoritative source, the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations.
• The dataset is part of a consistent annual reporting series that began in 2012.
• It is published under a permissive CC0-1.0 public domain license.

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

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Netherlands)

Collection Method

Aggregated annual information on purchase expenditure from all ministries and departments.

Time Range

2019

Freshness

Covers the 2019 fiscal year; last updated date is unknown.

Geography

Netherlands (national government)