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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 | Data can be downloaded in Excel format |
| Publicly available | Yes | Data are available at www.data.gov.et which is the government's open data portal |
| Openly licenced | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | No | The most recent data are from 2015 |
| In an open and machine-readable format | XLS | |
| location | https://www.data.gov.et/dataset/annual-budget-1953-2008 - government budget data for the period from 1960 (1953 Ethiopian calendar) to 2015 (2008 Ethiopian calendar) | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | Reviewed government sites including that of Ministry of Finance and Economic Cooperation, Central Statistics Agency and the Open Data portal | |
| characteristics | Enacted budget | Only Summarized data is available presenting enacted budget, budget adjustment and used budget for recurrent, capital and regional subsidy. |
| Controlled access | Yes | |
| Collector name | Ministry of Finance and Economic Cooperation | |
| licence_url | https://www.data.gov.et/dataset/annual-budget-1953-2008 | License is indicated as Creative Commons Attribution |