Colombian Health Sector Transfers from Santander Lottery

Financial transfer records from the Santander lottery to the health sector in Colombia. The dataset includes columns for verification digits, transfer dates, departments, fiscal years, months, tax IDs, tax amounts, health regulator codes, and transfer values. It is published by the Colombian open data portal, datos.gov.co, and was last updated on May 18, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in health sector funding using FECHA_GIRO, MES, and VIGENCIA.
• Mapping financial transfers by region using DEPARTAMENTO and VALOR.
• Aggregating contributions by healthcare institution using NIT and CODIGO_SUPERSALUD.
• Calculating total tax revenue for the health sector from lottery proceeds using IMPUESTO.

Strengths

• Data is structured with 9 distinct columns covering administrative, temporal, and financial dimensions.
• Includes a verification mechanism via the DIGITO_VERIFICACION column.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

www.datos.gov.co (Colombian open data portal).

Collection Method

Likely contains official government records of financial transfers as defined by law.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 17:32:54; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Colombia, indicated by department-level data (DEPARTAMENTO).