Belgium 39% open

Belgium is ranked #53 in the 2014 Index
Belgium's overall Index ranking is up from #56 in 2013

Rank Dataset Breakdown Location (URL) Format Info Prev. (2013) Score
23 National Statistics
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http://www.nbb.be/belgostat/Gl... Excel, ... #54  35% 70%
23 National Statistics
URL: http://www.nbb.be/belgostat/GlobalDispatcher?TARGET=/TreeviewLinker&Lang=E&prop=treeview
Format: Excel, CSV, PDF

Many separate spreadsheets available, although some data is only available when making a selection using online report builder.

More data is available at http://www.census2011.be/.

Note that all statistics are also published by Eurostat. Where they are available in bulk. See https://ec.europa.eu/CensusHub2/query.do?step=selectHyperCube&qhc=false&countrycode=be This holds for every European Union Member state.


19 Company Register
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http://economie.fgov.be/nl/ond... CSV #39  30% 55%
19 Company Register
URL: http://economie.fgov.be/nl/ondernemingen/bce/pub/opendata/
Format: CSV

There are three ways to obtain this data. One is as an Open Data CSV file that is updated monthly and available for free after registration, in this dataset however you can only see the publicly available information about the companies. There is also a daily updated webservice where users pay 50 euro per 2000 queries. And there is a full xml catalogue, daily updated with more up-to-date information on the companies (current and stopped). For this you pay a license of 75000 euro per year.


36 Pollutant Emissions
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http://www.irceline.be/ n/a #34  35% 45%
36 Pollutant Emissions
URL: http://www.irceline.be/


Air quality: http://www.irceline.be/ (data from services embedded in HTML pages), licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND Radiation: http://telerad.fgov.be/ (flash based) Since environment is a Other data probably fed to http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps


53 Election Results
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http://verkiezingen.fgov.be/in... PDF #51  35% 45%
53 Election Results
URL: http://verkiezingen.fgov.be/index.php?id=3266&L=1
Format: PDF

Up-to-date XLS files of the European, federal and regional results for the elections of 2014. Not openly licensed or available in a non-proprietary format.


24 Transport Timetables
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http://www.belgianrail.be/en/D... n/a #34  35% 45%
24 Transport Timetables
URL: http://www.belgianrail.be/en/Default.aspx


National rail company (NMBS/ SNCB) has not made access to the data available.

However a 3rd party group iRail has made this data available for the general public, machine readable as well as in bulk, under an open license. Thanks to the European database law, public transit schedules are not copyrighted. Therefore the data is free for anyone to use, reuse and redistribute.


61 Government Budget
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http://www.begroting.be/NL/Doc... xls #34  45% 45%
61 Government Budget
URL: http://www.begroting.be/NL/Documents/eBudget-Recettes-Budget2014.xls
Format: xls

Budget Online webpage provides access to recent budget data in pdf and xls formats.


34 Legislation
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http://www.belgielex.be n/a #47  35% 45%
34 Legislation
URL: http://www.belgielex.be


Structure of laws / law books could be improved: most legislation is available in HTML, but it misses semantic markup. Jurisprudence can be searched / viewed in a flash-based application.


61 National Map
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n/a SHP #49  15% 30%
61 National Map
Format: SHP

It is possible to order maps at: http://ngi.be/NL/NL1.shtm but they are distributed either with FTP or on DVDs. For these purposes FTP is not regarded as being available on the Internet.

Reference specification, for the vector files for 1:10000, available at: http://ngi.be/Common/StandardDigitProd-Specs2013/Top10Vector_ProductSpecificatie_v1.1_NL.pdf mentions that the data version is 1.1 and that is from 2011.


16 Government Spending
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n/a n/a #38  0% 10%
16 Government Spending


Only aggregate tables per year are published on the statistical portal of the national bank of Belgium: http://www.nbb.be/belgostat/DataAccesLinker?Lang=N&Code=publfin but they indicate that the data exists.


60 Postcodes / Zipcodes
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n/a n/a #45  0% 0%
60 Postcodes / Zipcodes


There is no geospatial link for the postcodes. All that's available is the postcodes themselves with corresponding place names on the Belgian Postal Office (bpost) which is partially owned by the Belgian government (privatised public office). (http://www.bpost.be/site/nl/residential/customerservice/search/postal_codes.html).


Contributors

Reviewers

  • Pieter-Jan Pauwels
  • Sander van der Waal

Submitters

  • Pieter-Jan Pauwels
  • Bram Wijns
  • Pierre Chrzanowski
  • Bert Van Nuffelen
  • Tryggvi Björgvinsson
  • Olav Peeters
  • Pieter Colpaert
  • Bart Hanssens