Government Budget 90% open

Finland

Finland is ranked #17 for this dataset
Finland's Index ranking for government budget is up from #34 in 2013

What data is expected?

National government budget at a high level (e.g. spending by sector, department etc). This category is about budgets which are government plans for expenditure (not actual expenditure in the past).

What data is available

  •   Does the data exist? Yes
  •   Is data in digital form? Yes
  •   Publicly available? Yes published by Ministry of Finance)
  •   Is the data available for free? Yes
  •   Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
  •   Is the data machine readable? Yes (CSV, xml)
  •   Available in bulk? Unsure
  •   Openly licensed? Yes(Here)
  •   Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes

Details

The data is available since 2014 in CSV and XML. The data asset is also available on Finnish data portal Avoindata.fi.

On the page ( http://budjetti.vm.fi/indox/index.jsp ) data is available in PDF and HTML but not in CSV, XLS or neither through API. The page is hosted by Ministry of Finance. The main datasets are the ones Government proposes to the Parliament. The Parliament amends the budget perioidically. See the discussion in Finnish: http://avoindata.net/245/onko-valtion-budjettidata-saatavilla-avoimena-ja-milloin

Contributors

Reviewers

  • Antti Poikola
  • Antti Jogi Poikola

Submitters

  • Raimo Muurinen
  • Antti Poikola
  • Antti Jogi Poikola
  • Margit Suurhasko