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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 | The data is freely available and one does not need to register to gain access. |
| Downloadable | Yes | All the data including budget reports, budget speeches, actual budget data on excel spreadsheets, and various other budget related information are available for direct download via the links of the Department's web site. |
| Publicly available | Yes | Annual data-sets on various dimensions of the government budget are available for direct download online. |
| Openly licenced | No | There is no explicit open licence or legal framework indicating open use of the data. |
| Up-to-date | Yes | The data is quite up to date, with annual data being published every year since 1993. |
| In an open and machine-readable format | CSV, Other, XLS | Budget speeches and reports are given as pdf files. |
| location | https://www.treasury.gov.za/documents/National%20Budget/ - The web page gives access to annual folders with substantial budget data on various dimensions. | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | I searched for government budget data for South Africa. I determined that the most relevant hit was that of the Department of National Treasury. Then I explored the website and found the section with budget information. | |
| characteristics | Enacted budget, Ongoing revenues / expenditures, Disaggregation by department, program, expenditure | The Department of National Treasury avails various dimensions of budget data in various formals, most notably pdf and xls files. |
| Controlled access | Yes | |
| Collector name | The Department of National Treasury |