[wdmmg-discuss] Fixing the CRA

Sun Feb 21 21:21:11 UTC 2010

On the cofog, I made a script that does some guesses, and then
filled in some of the remaining categories by hand. Not guaranteed
to be correct - I just did it quickly and haven't checked it over
but it should be ok.

Note that the "of which" sometimes refers to a level 2 function
and sometimes level 3 (so we actually have some data by sub-sub
function...)

Have a look here:

http://knowledgeforge.net/okfn/wdmmg/file/b70ef7aac3c6/econdata/ukgov_finances_cra/fog_codes.py

the tuples are

(proper_code, function_in_cra, subfunction_in_cra)

The UK extensions of the cofog have strings instead of numbers in
part of the code...

Cheers,
-w

Le 10-02-21 à 22:10, Lisa Evans a écrit :

> I've just had a meeting with Alistair Turnbull about practical  
> things we/I
> can do to improve the quality of the CRA data. We came up with a  
> list of 3
> actions:
>
> 1. The poor descriptions for the Program Object Group (POG) can be
> improved by a combination of FOI requesting more detail and meeting
> government departments for more explanation on what the POG means.  
> Just to
> be clear: the people I know at the Treasury say there are not more
> detailed descriptions of POG in COINS.
>
> 2. Not all the government departments listed in the CRA make obvious  
> sense
> e.g. there is a department called "PC CAPEX" with code "998". So an  
> action
> to determine what all the government departments refer to in the  
> CRA, by
> talking to the Treasury/looking for this list online etc.
>
> 3. With the COFOG categories that are messed-up (I've tried to  
> describe
> how it's messed-up in previous emails -- it is quite hard to explain  
> this
> in an email), we can use table 5.2 and 5.4 of PESA to map the 'of  
> which:
> ..' statement to a reasonable approximation of what we think the COFOG
> spending categories should be for each item of spending.
>
> Lisa
>
>
>
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