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National government budget, that is the planned government expenditure for high-level activities, but not a fine-grained list of expenditure items. Open budget data allows for well-informed publics: showing where money is spent on, how public funds develop over time, and why certain activities are funded.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| Downloadable | Yes | |
| Publicly available | Yes | Many documents on public finances can be viewed here https://www.finances.bj/dgb/documentation/ |
| Openly licenced | No | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| In an open and machine-readable format | PDF only | |
| location | https://www.finances.bj/dgb/documentation/ - Ministry of Economy and Finance | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | I went to the website of the Ministry of Economy and Finance and did some requests | |
| characteristics | Enacted budget, Ongoing revenues / expenditures | Many documents on public finances can be viewed here https://www.finances.bj/tc/documents-sur-les-finances-publiques/ |
| Controlled access | Yes | |
| Collector name | General Office of Budget | In terms of budget management, it is the General budget office that collects the data. The General Budget office is a branch of the Ministry of Economy and Finance |
No changes in the submission. The data is available in a series of pdf documents. You can access revenue and planned budgets in separate zip files, which include the Budget law, proposed budget and the files with the data themselves. Data is not as disaggregated but gives a general overview of how the budget is distributed. No license found.