[wdmmg-discuss] CRA 2010: description and questions

[Lisa Evans]

Great question Anna.

The 2009 CRA database dump is:
- the data behind PESA table 9
and
- the data behind PESA table 10
joined together badly with lots of mistakes in it.

We wrote scripts to make the data sensible.

This year the Treasury have given us two well defined data sets:
- one for the data behind PESA table 9
and
- one for the data behind PESA table 10.

We can join the data together ourselves in a controlled and well defined 
way.

(Alistair, the 2009 CRA database dump is not a one off either, we have 
database dumps for every year going back to 2005).

On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Alistair Turnbull wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Anna Powell-Smith wrote:
>
>>  Question for Alistair/Lisa:
>>
>>  In PESA 2009, the CRA parts are structured in just the same way as
>>  2010 - Tables 9 and 10:
>>  http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/pespub_pesa09.htm
>>
>>  But in the bitbucket package for CRA 2009, you don't actually use
>>  those two spreadsheets, you use something else:
>> http: //bitbucket.org/okfn/ukgov-finances-cra/src/tip/data.py pulls in:
>> http: //www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/cra_2009_db.csv
>>
>>  This CSV file classifies every row by both region and sub-function,
>>  more helpfully.
>
> Correct.
>
>>  Where did it come from - was this the spreadsheet released under FOI?
>>  If so, do you think there's any chance we could obtain a similar one
>>  again through FOI?
>
> I think it might have been a one-off, but I don't know. Lisa?
>
> 	Alistair
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