National government budget at a high level. This category is looking at budgets, or the planned government expenditure for the upcoming year, and not the actual expenditure. To satisfy this category, the following minimum criteria must be met:
- Planned budget divided by government department and sub-department
- Updated once a year.
- The budget should include descriptions regarding the different budget sections.
Data Location
https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Comments
Current budget is available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/. Formal budget documents are in PDF format and are on https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Overview. Machine-readable data in Excel and CSV files can be found in the supplemental material at https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Supplemental.
Furthermore, the Whitehouse.gov copyright notice states all material is CC-By (see https://www.whitehouse.gov/copyright).
Bulk: Whilst the data is split across multiple files there is a good core set of data in the "Public Budget Database" which consists of only 3 substantial CSV files. As such, have marked Bulk as "Yes"
Machine-readable: whilst formal budget is PDF we believe that all relevant data is contained in the Excel and CSV files so Machine-readable is "Yes" (note also that the CSV files are well formatted)
Older budgets: the OMB budget site only contains data for the latest budget with past budgets available on the GPO website at: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collectionGPO.action?collectionCode=BUDGET. The GPO site only provides PDFs. However, the OMB site does contain a historical tables section at https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals and the Public Budget Database contains data back to 1962.
Reviewer comments
Fixed some typos
Data Availability
Key:
- Yes
- No
- Unsure
- No data
Details
| Date the data became available | Unknown |
| Format of data | XLS, CSV, PDF |
| Reviewer | Tracey P. Lauriault |
| Submitters | Tracey P. Lauriault |
| Last modified | Fri Nov 28 2014 05:49:28 GMT+0000 (UTC) |