WATCH FY2018: Wake County, NC Fiscal Year 2018 Budget and Expenditure Data

Fiscal year 2018 budget information for Wake County, North Carolina. The data is used in the WATCH (Wake Accountability Tax Check) application to review tax dollar spending, stewardship, and fiscal responsibility of county programs. It includes information on government expenditures, vendor transactions, and comparisons between budgeted and actual expenses.

Use Cases

• Analyze county government expenditure patterns based on budget and actual expense data mentioned in the description
• Review transactions with vendors based on the vendor transaction information mentioned in the description
• Assess fiscal stewardship by comparing budgeted amounts to actual spending based on the comparison feature mentioned in the description

Strengths

• Data supports the WATCH application, a dedicated platform for fiscal transparency
• Available in multiple formats including CSV, XLS, and geospatial formats like GEOJSON
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to a single county's records

Provenance

Source

Wake County

Collection Method

Likely extracted from official county budget and accounting systems for the WATCH application.

Time Range

Fiscal Year 2018

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-22 02:55:13.357441; freshness should be verified

Geography

Wake County, North Carolina, USA