Purchasing card transaction records for the Ministry of Labour in British Columbia during fiscal year 2011. The data reflects expenditures within the original ministry structure before reorganization events in October and March. The dataset is provided by the Government of British Columbia under an open license.
Use Cases
- Analyze government procurement spending patterns based on purchasing card transaction records.
- Track departmental expenditure changes during fiscal reorganization based on the description of ministry restructuring.
- Benchmark public sector purchasing card usage for a specific fiscal year.
Strengths
- Data covers a complete fiscal year (FYE11).
- Records expenditures within the original ministry structure, providing a consistent organizational view.
- Available under the OGL-CA-2.0 open license.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to a single fiscal year.
Provenance
- Source
- Government of British Columbia
- Time Range
- Fiscal Year 2011
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:29:21.679717; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- British Columbia, Canada