Office of the Auditor General Purchasing Card Transactions for Fiscal Year 2011

British Columbia's Office of the Auditor General purchasing card transactions for the fiscal year ending 2011. The data reflects expenditures within the original ministry structure before reorganizations in October and March. It is provided by the Government of British Columbia and was last updated on the platform in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze government procurement patterns based on purchasing card transaction data.
• Track departmental expenditure changes based on fiscal year and ministry reorganization data.
• Audit spending compliance and transparency based on detailed transaction records.

Strengths

• Data is explicitly tied to a specific fiscal year (FYE11).
• Transaction records are attributed to the original ministry structure, providing context for reorganizations.
• Published under the OGL-CA-2.0 license, which permits reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
• Data may reflect temporal and institutional bias inherent to a single government office's records from 2011.

Provenance

Source

Government of British Columbia

Collection Method

Likely compiled from internal financial systems.

Time Range

Fiscal year ending 2011 (FYE11).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 15:28:38.537179; freshness should be verified.

Geography

British Columbia, Canada.