City government budget at a high level. This category is looking at budgets, that is the planned government expenditure for the upcoming year, and not the actual expenditure.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available in bulk | Yes | |
| In an open format | XLS | Also ODS |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | They present information by year. |
| Available free online | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | Yes | |
| findable | 4 | A quick search in google will present the right website where the information is. Once in the website, it is easy to find the desired information |
| findable_steps | You type "loa sp município" which means “São Paulo anual budget law” in google and the first option will be the city hall open data website. | |
| licence_url | https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/L9610.htm | There is no license declaration in the website. Regarding the definition of copyright content stated by the Law 9.610/1998 in Article 7, XIII, a dataset will be copyrightable only if its organization involves an intellectual creation. In this case, data is primary or factual, so we can assume that it is open or public. |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 3 | You can download all data in once in a editable format, so it is quite simple to analyse it and take conclusions. |
| collector_name | https://capital.sp.gov.br/ | São Paulo city hall |
| characteristics | Budget per government department, Budget per sub-department, Descriptions for budget sections | You can download the approved budget per year, government department and sub-department and other budgetary classifications. |
| location | https://transparencia.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/contas/Pagina - City hall open data website |
Dataset reviewed. Even though information is also provided through the API system (https://api.prodam.sp.gov.br/store/apis/info?name=SOF&version=v2.1.0&provider=admin), this dataset used is more comprehensive in terms of budget and presented less problems with usability.