[Open-data-census] scoring budgets

[Rufus Pollock]

On 7 November 2014 08:19, Michaela Rybičková <michaela.rybickova at motejl.cz>
wrote:

> Dear Index community,
>
> I have a question about budgets - in CZ, the data for 2014 are available
> <http://monitor.statnipokladna.cz/en/2014/statni-rozpocet/> (updated on a
> quaterly basis). Me personally wouldn't consider it a plan for future
> expenditure. The budget for 2015 has not been approved yet and not even a
> framework or estimate is available. Therefore, I would score the dataset as
> not available.
>

Is it available regularly for past years? If so I think this should
definitely be marked on that basis. If you think the data is not being
provided on a timely basis that should be dealt with in the final question
"Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis?" (not by marking as
unavailable)

>
> But one expert has an opinion, that data for this year are sufficient - as
> they represent a plan for this year in 3 phases - estimates, changes,
> actual expenditure (which is updated quaterly). From this point of view,
> our data would be scored as available, machine readable and available in
> bulk, just not available on timely basis.
> I get his point,but I wonder whether such result would be comparable with
> for example New Zealand, who will get very similar score for publishing
> data for 2015 http://www.treasury.govt.nz/budget/2015 (and therefore,
> much more useful in terms of future expenditure).
>

As explained above I would be scoring on the general availability of this
dataset (including for previous years). If the data is not timely mark that
in the last question about "timely and up to date". At the same time,
obviously if the budget had not been provided for the last 10 years then
that would be different and one would probably mark as not available.

Lastly, please do note these kind of points (e.g. that whilst they may get
yes, they could do better in X or Y way) in the comments section - this
information is really useful to record.

Rufus


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