Government of British Columbia provides a list of Ministry of Health purchasing card transactions for fiscal year 2011. The data 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 procurement spending patterns based on purchasing card transaction data
- Track healthcare-related expenditures based on the Ministry of Health source
- Study organizational changes in fiscal management based on the noted reorganizations
- Audit public sector spending transparency based on disclosed transaction lists
Strengths
- Data is sourced from an authoritative government institution, Government of British Columbia
- The fiscal year coverage is explicitly defined as FYE11
- The dataset is available in multiple formats, CSV and HTML
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
- Geography
- British Columbia, Canada