Purchasing Card Expenditures - Ministry of Advanced Education - FYE11

Purchasing card transaction records for the Ministry of Advanced Education in British Columbia during fiscal year 2011. The data was published by the Government of British Columbia and reflects expenditures within the original ministry structure before reorganization events in October and March. The dataset is available in CSV and HTML formats under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze government spending patterns based on purchasing card transaction records
• Track departmental expenditure changes during fiscal reorganizations based on the described ministry structure changes
• Identify procurement categories and vendor relationships based on transaction-level data

Strengths

• Data covers a full fiscal year (2011) for a specific ministry
• Transactions are attributed to the original ministry structure, providing a consistent organizational view
• Available in CSV format, facilitating structured analysis

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

Government of British Columbia

Time Range

Fiscal year 2011

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 15:32:28.219568; freshness should be verified

Geography

British Columbia, Canada