[Open-data-census] scoring budgets

Fri Nov 7 16:31:37 UTC 2014

Thank you both for clarifying this to me, i appreciate your help.

The ministry publishes data as old as 2010, so i will mark the data as
available and figure out, whether it was timely in further discussions
within Czech community (there is a slight delay in publishing the actual
figures, about 4 months). Czech budget for 2015 is still in approval
process.

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2014-11-07 14:54 GMT+01:00 Uldis Bojars <captsolo at gmail.com>:

>
> On 7 November 2014 13:48, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
> Based on the definition of the Budget dataset even just having the
> official budget plans (w/o actual expenditure) should be enough the say
> that the dataset is available:
>
> "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)."
>
> 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.
>>
>
> The data has to be created before it can be published. Thus, if the state
> budget is published as open data within a reasonable time from when it was
> officially approved, it should qualify as "timely and up to date".
>
> In some countries 2015 budgets may still be in development, hence we can
> only judge update timeliness from when previous year budgets were published.
>
> Uldis
>
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