Canadian Government External Expenses by Type from Public Accounts

Public Services and Procurement Canada publishes financial information in the Public Accounts at the end of each fiscal year. This dataset reconciles total ministerial net expenditures with external expenses. The data is available in XML, CSV, and HTML formats and was last updated on 2026-04 09.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in government spending by expense type based on the reconciliation of ministerial expenditures.
• Benchmark departmental external expenses against total net expenditures based on the fiscal accounting data.
• Model fiscal year-end financial reporting patterns based on the published Public Accounts information.

Strengths

• Data is published by the authoritative source, Public Services and Procurement Canada.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats, including CSV and XML.
• Last updated date is precisely recorded as 2026-04-09 16:35:42.399050.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Public Services and Procurement Canada

Collection Method

Published in the Public Accounts of Canada at the end of each fiscal year.

Time Range

Fiscal year-end data.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 16:35:42.399050.

Geography

Canada