Government Spending / 2013 22% open (avg.)

Central Government departments are required to regularly publish lists of all financial transactions spending over £25,000; some departments publish transactions down to £500 or lower. The business rules and the format is described at http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130129110402/http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/psr_transparency_index.htm The data is re-usable under the UK's Open Government Licence. In addition summarised spending information by month x department x type of goods/services is available quarterly from the Treasury (Ministry of Finance) COINS/OSCAR database - see for instance https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-oscar-publishing-from-the-database This is also available under the Open Government Licence

Expenses are published as part of the “Clarity” program of Law 3861/2010, which introduced for the first time in Greece the obligation to publish all the decisions of government and all administrative entities on the Internet.

There is no data available on day-to-day spending. Public contract offers and non-bid contracts are available through the website http://www.base.gov.pt/base2/. It is machine readable, freely and timely available, but not in bulk nor under an open license.

The data at USASpending.gov accounts for only a fraction of all government spending, and it is organized in a way that makes it hard to understand and use. So while it's open data, it's only a small part of federal spending data. It does not include expenses on government salaries and operating expenditures or information on Medicare, the nation's government sponsored medical insurance for the elderly (~20% of total spending). There are no government-wide spending records that would actually be more helpful --- that is, the government doesn't collect the type of data about its own spending that would be useful to the open government world.

Brief Description: Russia has special official web portal for government procurement (spending) information http://zakupki.gov.ru. This portal provides technical opportunity for use and reuse procurement data in machine-readable formats. But there is some lack of legal support. According to Russian legislation, spending data (state procurement information) is available to the public (Article 16 of the Federal Law № 94-FZ of 21.07.2005, Order of the Federal Ministry of Economic Development and the Treasury from December 11, 2010 number 646/21n). Also according to the Russian FOI law procurement data in the type of special information category - information about government bodies activity. This information is as a general rule public by default. Form the other hand, there is a lack of direct reference to the licensing regime and copyright sing on the http://zakupki.gov.ru. Step by step explanation 1. Does the data exist? Yes, all procurement data disclosed as machine readable data via ftp.zakupki.gov.ru and as HTML via zakupki.gov.ru 2. Is data in digital form? Yes, data available via website and FTP and has digital form. 3. Publicly available? Yes, this data is publicly available. We don't need FOI request to get it. 4. Is the data available for free? Yes, this data is available for free. No payment is required. 5. Is the data available online? Yes. Data available at http://pass.rzd.ru 6. Is the data machine readable? Yes, data is downloadable as XML files from ftp.zakupki.gov.ru and as CSV files from search engine of zakupki.gov.ru 7. Available in bulk? Yes, data is downloadable as XML files 8. Openly licensed? No, this data us public domain data but no open license available. 9. Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes, this information updated frequently, on hourly basis. Ivan Pavlov: Ivan Pavlov: we consider the Russian Budget Spending Information as open licensed, taking into the account Russian Legislation provisions. According to the Civil Сode of Russia (Article 1259), official government documents including laws, other legal texts, judicial decisions, other materials of legislative, administrative and judicial character are not objects of copyright. Also according to the Russian FOI law (Article 1), information about the activities of government bodies and bodies of local self-government is information (including documentation), established within government bodies, their territorial bodies, local authorities or institutions subordinate to the state authorities, local self-government (hereinafter - organizations subordinated to it), or received by the mentioned bodies and organizations. Information on the activities of government bodies and bodies of local self-government also includes laws and other normative legal acts concerning information on the activities of bodies of local self-government – municipal legal acts defining structure, competence, formation and operating procedures of the above-specified bodies and organizations, and other information concerning their activity. Thus, according to the current Russian legislation, there are no legal restrictions on use, reuse or redistribute Budget Spending Information.

The first page is not a notice of (un)availability, rather an introductory message. Data is available in a form of a web application, where you are supposed to choose a public body and/or private company doing business with government. Examples: http://supervizor.kpk-rs.si/organ/16110/ gives a graph and list of all expenses by Ministry of finances. http://supervizor.kpk-rs.si/podj/25028022/ gives all income for Post of Slovenia received from public bodies. Companies also have listed owners, supervisors and directors. You can combine bodies and companies, eg. http://supervizor.kpk-rs.si/organ/12157/podj/25028022/ lists all expenditure from Information comissioner's office given to Post of Slovenia. Bulk data is available at: http://supervizor.kpk-rs.si/podatki/ All transactions above 2000€ are noted and dated (starting from 2003) with a summary log for the rest. There is an API available and official interface provided, which can list all the transactions, not limited to the abovementioned sum: https://github.com/Supervizor/supervizor-api

There is also a 3rd-party scrapper available here: https://github.com/dataoko/slobiro/tree/master/superviz2

Additionally , there's detailed monthly and yearly documentation of the balance of public finances at (PDF, XLS): http://www.mf.gov.si/si/delovna_podrocja/tekoca_gibanja_v_javnih_financah/bilten_jav nih_financ/

The spending report is published monthly.

Editors comments: I don't find detailed information about the spending on an eg. monthly basis. There are budget evaluations (eg. http://www.transparenciapresupuestaria.gob.mx/ptp/contenidos/?id=9&group=Evaluaciones%3Cbr%3E%C2%A0&page=B%C3%BAsqueda) but these are high level reports. Data is not in bulk. Due to difference of evaluations, availability and readability are assessed as "unsure" for the 2013 index.

Comments by Lorena Rivero - 29/10/2013 My name is Lorena Rivero, in charge of the open budget site in Mexico. Going through the index you recently published, I found some information ranked as "Unsure", specifically in the part of Government Spending where it says "I don't find detailed information about the spending on an eg. monthly basis".

In this matter I would like to show that we have extensive information in a monthly basis, including income, showing the different taxes and oil income; expenditure in administrative, functional and economic classifications; debt; grants; local government transfers among many other information in http://www.transparenciapresupuestaria.gob.mx/ptp/contenidos/?id=5. All data can be consulted and downloaded (in xls) free of charge according to the terms and conditions stated in the site (Términos y Condiciones de uso de la información) allowing the user to create its own time series and receive the data in different ways, for example in millions, accumulative or percentage of the GDP.

Additional Comments from consulted civil society specialists - 10/11/2013 An initial revision with civil society specialists was done in november 2013. Specialists were not certain that all expenses can be found in a detailed monthly basis. Nonetheless, a more detailed research and comparison with other countries should be done for 2014 census.

This data is taken from ministry of finance website "http://www.finmin.nic.in/the_ministry/dept_expenditure/cca/cca_exp_stat.asp". It is publicly available. You can also find info on http://cga.nic.in/default.aspx and on http://www.finmin.nic.in/the_ministry/dept_expenditure/cca/cca_exp_stat.asp Data available in pdf not excel. Data is not available in bulk for all things, though for some. To be conservative ive said no. Given the definition of spending I have changed the link to CGA as that is where detailed accounts are available to some degree of disaggregation. The ministy of finance has some but CGA would have more.

Malta's national statistics office provides information related to the economic and financial status of the country. Quarterly accounts exist that provide information re monthly expenditure and revenue.

The country provides spending data but not at a transactionnal level.

See the discussion in Finnish http://avoindata.net/245/onko-valtion-budjettidata-saatavilla-avoimena-ja-milloin

The government spending datas can be find on the website of the procurements direction. They are available some in PDF and others in XLS format. They are not licenced.

Not available under open license, since you'll have to make an FOI request to get it. Data that is up to date exists. See also http://www.information.dk/databloggen/460345 (Danish) on obtaining the data.

Spending data in Egypt is not really available: the Ministry of Finance publishes laws, quaterly briefs and suchlikes, but very few actual data. When the latter is available online, it is through PDFs. The Central Bank of Egypt also publishes data (see here for ex.: http://www.cbe.org.eg/English/Economic+Research/Time+Series/). Here, format is XLS.

The data is available via SIOPE to anyone who is granted access but it seems that some people are denied access to this system unjustly - according to some http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2012/11/04/soldi-pubblici-dati-restano-segreti-e-sprechi-crescono/

Spending data provided on a daily basis, but not at transactionnal level.

The country provides spending data but not at transactionnal level.

Spending data but not transacationnal level.

only summarised annual revenue and expenditure: http://www.censtatd.gov.hk/hkstat/sub/sp110.jsp

The Government of Canada released a pilot sample dataset matching the criteria for this category, which has since been discontinued: http://data.gc.ca/data/en/dataset/2eed2fba-1626-4d2e-a511-389cc6b51ddf

Though only defined in 28 categories, the government expenditure data is available via Statistics Norway, and a CC 3.0 BA compatible license. <- NB. since this is NOT at a "detailed transactional level with information at the level of month to month government expenditure including money spent on specific contracts or with specific vendors.", I find it incorrect to answer yes to all the availability questions Edit: thank you for the comments. I'm amending the answers to your suggestion. However, I cannot find a mention of the specification of the expenditure data, that you kindly mentioned, anywhere in the Open Data Census documentation ( the description above the answer sections of this page is actually about transport data ). <- I would say data exists in digital format but is not available at transactionnal level only aggregated (pc)

Only aggregated government spending is available.

Data may be available through CHORUS Information System

There is some summary information about spending on monthly basis available at http://www.rozpocet.sk/ and http://www.finance.gov.sk/ (see for example http://www.rozpocet.sk/app/homepage/rozpocetVCislach/monitoringStatnehoRozpoctu/mesacnePlnenie/2013/ and also for example http://www.finance.gov.sk/Default.aspx?CatID=9326) but those do not match the definition used by Census.

The granularity of the spending data is not satisfying. [Notice pudo: this is really not what I think we should cover with spending data; I would argue such data is completely unavailable on a federal level] [SvdW: Changed answers to reflect this]. http://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Web/DE/Themen/Oeffentliche_Finanzen/Bundeshaushalt/Haushalts_und_Vermoegensrechnungen_des_Bundes/haushalts_vermoegensrechnungen_des_bundes.html

Budgetvollzug: https://service.bmf.gv.at/budget/akthh/2013/_start.htm The Budgetvollzug provides general monthly spending data, but not at the level of detail demanded by the Census. Almost no amounts under 1M, none under 100k. Hence, not publicly available.

No publication of expenditures is expected soon. National audit office is however slowly starting to think about open data (Jan 2013)

Available on request but law only gives you the right to receive it on paper. If gvmt official approves you may get it electronically.

Cannot find transactional level spending although aggregate spend is available for bulk download

Actual spending is presented in aggregated form in the budget implementation reports. At the level of presentation, data is minimally useful.

It is unknown whether such a database currently exist. The Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia had planned to implement the SPAN (Sistem Perbendaharaan dan Anggaran Negara/State Treasury and Budget System) in 2013, but it has been delayed. The SPAN is meant to be an internal integrated system of all processes related to the management of the budget, including budget preparation, budget document management, procurement management, payment management, revenue management, cash management, and reporting. Before, such transactional-level data seem to be scattered among individual line ministries instead of being in a unified database. Whether such detailed data is considered 'public' is unknown. A much more aggregated realized spending report, however, is available for download in PDF form from http://www.depkeu.go.id/indekskatalogdata/559 (quarterly report) or ftp://ftp1.perbendaharaan.go.id/produk/dia/lkpp/ (annual report). A database of nationwide government awarded contracts is also available at the LKPP LPSE e-Procurement portal http://inaproc.lkpp.go.id/.

Only Budget Data exists, no evidence of Spending Data at a transactionnal level.

Partially available, not in detailed month to month or widely across government entities. Data is processed in graphs so there is no possibility to cross-reference with other variables. Open spending is one of the Country Commitments in Action Plan at OGP. There are multiple platforms of database related to budgets at local level, such as: https://www.hacienda.go.cr/msib21/espanol/Miscelaneos/Indices/ge_informacionespecializada.htm?vnode=16 http://datosabiertos.gob.go.cr/

Data about spending is partially available online, both through the Ministry of Finances and through the official Open Data Tunisia portal. Thus, data about the 2012 budget execution is available but not in a very detailed way and only through PDFs: http://www.data.gov.tn/fr/index.php?option=com_mtree&task=viewlink&link_id=40&Itemid=187 Some data about expenditure can also be accessed here: http://www.finances.gov.tn/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=127&Itemid=303&lang=fr Expenditure of departments and communities leads to a broken link (http://www.finances.gov.tn/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=699&lang=fr).

only found online links to summarised budget and national accounts statistics

No evidence of Spending Data

As part of the budget, it is possible to find data on total expenditure and expenditure for the current year. Data are related to individual sectors. There is no detailed transactions on a monthly basis. http://www.trezor.gov.rs/uploads/file/Zakoni/Zakon%20o%20budzetu%20za%202013.pdf

Reviewer comment: Given there are no detailed monthly transactions available I have to mark this dataset as not available.

Data is released fortnightly through Austender, and compilation dating back to 2011 is available on data.gov.au. The dataset at https://www.tenders.gov.au/?event=public.reports.listCNWeeklyExport is a dataset of contract notices; "The Contract Notice Export is an export file containing contract notice data for all Australian Government agencies who report procurement on AusTender published over a one week period." Although this is valuable data (and in line with that published by other excellent jurisdictions) it is not expenditure information in terms of the definition of this element ("Government spending at a detailed transactional level, that is at the level of month to month government expenditure including money spent on specific contracts or with specific vendors."). It does not detail individual payments to vendors when they are made, only the overall estimated value of the contract at the time of award. IMHO there should also be category for contract award information for which this dataset would be an excellent example. But it is not the expenditure information required by the census.

A budget is declared every year in the national assembly. But stats regarding the efficiency of the implementation of the budget is not published that openly.

There are PDFs showing aggregate spend but no transactional level information.

Data are not available at transactional level but only as accounting statements.

Only high level data is available, not transaction-level https://www.digitalbrain.go.kr/kor/view/statis/statis02_01_01.jsp?code=DB0102

Although not detailed to transaction level, I did find higher level budget reports: http://www.kormany.hu/hu/nemzetgazdasagi-miniszterium/allamhaztartasert-felelos-allamtitkarsag/hirek/koltsegvetesi-beszamolo

Public procurements are published in PDF by the government, but it is only a subset of Budget Spending.

Whilst budget includes some expenditure information (see e.g. http://data.gov.sg/common/search.aspx?q=budget&page=1) there is no detailed transactional information available as far as we have been able to determine.

Cannot be found on government websites. If anyone finds something ,please submit!

Budget data available but not spending data

Only aggregate tables per year are published on the statistical portal of the national bank of Belgium: http://www.nbb.be/belgostat/PublicatieSelectieLinker?LinkID=82000033|910000082&Lang=N

Datasets on the national open data portal are only yearly aggregates. https://opendata.go.ke/browse?category=Public+Finance