[Open-data-census] Fwd: Global open data index - Change of country scores in the 'Government Spending' category

Tue Dec 2 10:57:31 UTC 2014

Ivan -

Probably it's time to include other data types from OCDS (Open contracting
> data standard) principles

+1

Best,
Denis

On 2 December 2014 at 09:12, Ivan Begtin <ibegtin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Mor.
>
> In Russia we have much more detailed information about government spending.
> It includes:
> - budgets of each government owned enterprise and any other organization
> - contracts of all government bodies and all owned government enterprises
> - detailed information about each *payment transaction* for each contract
> - all local (municipal) level contracts
> - government contract texts and performance documents
>
> and so on.
>
> So, is the transactions data enough for measurement of government spending
> openness? Probably it's time to include other data types from OCDS (Open
> contracting data standard) principles ?
>
> Best Regards,
>    Ivan Begtin
>
>
> 2014-12-02 0:44 GMT+03:00 Mor Rubinstein <mor.rubinstein at okfn.org>:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Over the weekend we have made some thoroughly thematic review of our
>> datasets. On dataset that was the most confusing was the Government
>> spending one. While we asked for transactional data, most of you reported
>> about aggregated expenditure data or tenders data, which is not in the
>> scope of the Index.
>>
>> What is the difference?
>>
>> - *Transactional data *is data that shows transaction between the
>> government and a vendor. It contains the following fields:
>> * Date
>> * Ministry or unit that got the service
>> * Vendors / entity name
>> * The amount that was spend.
>>
>> This is a list or a table of transactions for each ministry. This data is
>> in the micro level, and help us to track the actual use of the money.
>>
>>  A good example for this data can be found in the UK data portal -
>> http://data.gov.uk/dataset/financial-transactions-data-national-measurement-office
>>
>> - *Aggregated data - *is data that specify how much money each office
>> spend monthly. This data is macro level data, and does give names of the
>> companies or how the money was used. This is not Spending data, It usually
>> looks like this:
>> http://www.treasury.govt.nz/government/financialstatements/monthend/archive
>>
>> *- Tenders data - *gives information about tenders that won future
>> contracts, but does not actually explains if the tender did happen or not
>> and how much money was exactly use  (because it might be paid in
>> different instalments). There are other transactions that might happens
>> in procurement which are not government spending. It is important data, but
>> not what we are looking for in the index.
>>
>> Please take a look at the data we submitted for your country in this
>> category and reply to us back if you think did anything wrong in the next *24
>> *hours.
>>
>> Best,
>> Mor
>>
>>
>>
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>
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