Government Budget / 2014 70% open

What data is expected?

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.

What data is available

•   Openly licensed? No (No URL given)
•   Is the data available for free? Yes
•   Is the data machine readable? Yes (Excel)
•   Available in bulk? Yes
•   Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes
•   Publicly available? Yes published by The Ministry of Finance Japan)
•   Is data in digital form? Yes
•   Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
•   Does the data exist? Yes

Details

The license of the e-Stat data is available at http://www.e-stat.go.jp/estat/html/spec_en.html. And MoF's license is here: http://www.mof.go.jp/english/notice.htm

"3) Prohibited use" makes the data non-open.

Reviewer comments

This is my own submission.