British Columbia Ministry of Finance Purchasing Card Transactions for Fiscal Year 2011

Purchasing card expenditures for the British Columbia Ministry of Finance during fiscal year 2011. The data reflects organizational changes in October and March, with transactions attributed to the original ministry where they occurred. The dataset is provided by the Government of British Columbia under an open license.

Use Cases

• Analyze departmental spending patterns based on purchasing card transaction data.
• Track fiscal year expenditures for budget oversight and transparency.
• Study the impact of organizational restructuring on procurement based on the ministry attribution logic.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific fiscal year (2011), providing a bounded temporal scope.
• Transactions are attributed to the original ministry, preserving context despite reorganization.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified; last metadata update was 2026-04-17.

Provenance

Source

Government of British Columbia

Time Range

Fiscal Year 2011

Geography

British Columbia, Canada