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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 | Users do not need to subscribe to access the data. |
| Downloadable | Yes | The ministry's website provides links for direct downloads of the government's fiscal policies by year. |
| Publicly available | Yes | The data is available for download on the Ministry of Finance's website. |
| Openly licenced | No | There is no explicit open licence referring to the data, nor is there any clear legal framework relating to its use. |
| Up-to-date | Yes | The data is up to date, with the latest data for January-February 2018 already available. Data sets are updated when information becomes available. |
| In an open and machine-readable format | XLS | |
| location | https://www.mofep.gov.gh/fiscal-data - This web page contains links for direct downloads of excel data files with dis-aggregated fiscal policies. | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | I searched for government budget data for Ghana and the most relevant hit was that of the Ministry of Finance's website. I explored the website and located the data. | |
| characteristics | Enacted budget, Ongoing revenues / expenditures, Disaggregation by department, program, expenditure | |
| Controlled access | Yes | |
| Collector name | Ministry of Finance |