British Columbia Ministry Purchasing Card Transactions for Fiscal Year 2011

British Columbia's Ministry of Tourism, Culture and The Arts purchasing card transactions for fiscal year 2011. The data reflects expenditures within the original ministry structure before reorganizations in October and March of that fiscal year. The dataset is provided by the Government of British Columbia under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze government procurement spending patterns based on purchasing card transaction data.
• Track departmental expenditure changes during fiscal reorganizations based on the description of ministry changes.
• Benchmark public sector spending in tourism, culture, and arts sectors based on the ministry's focus.

Strengths

• Data is provided under the OGL-CA-2.0 license, facilitating open use.
• The description specifies the fiscal year (2011) and notes organizational changes affecting the data.

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 15:34:06.644067; freshness should be verified.

Geography

British Columbia, Canada