Government Spending / 2014 10% open

What data is expected?

Records of actual (past) national government spending at a detailed transactional level; A database of contracts awarded or similar will not considered sufficient. This data category refers to detailed ongoing data on actual expenditure. Data submitted in this category should meet the following minimum criteria:

• Individual record of transactions.
• Date of the transactions
• Government office which had the transaction
• Name of vendor
• amount of the transaction
• Update on a monthly basis

What data is available

•   Openly licensed? No (No URL given)
•   Is the data available for free? No
•   Is the data machine readable? No (n/a)
•   Available in bulk? No
•   Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? No
•   Publicly available? No
•   Is data in digital form? Yes
•   Is the data available online? No (No URL given)
•   Does the data exist? Yes

Details

The website of the National Centre for Statistics and Information publishes a monthly statistical bulletin at: http://www.ncsi.gov.om/NCSI_website/N_ListPublications_Ar.aspx?view=31

The bulletin includes a section on "Public Finance" which shows aggregated spending data, i.e. not transactional data. For example: http://www.ncsi.gov.om/NCSI_website/book/mb/Jul2014/T4.pdf is the spending report for the month of July 2014.

Reviewer comments

Expert review determine the data was not transactional. Submission was changed accordingly.