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How open is the data?

•  It's openly licenced
•  It's in an open and machine-readable format
•  It's downloadable at once
•  It's up-to-date
•  It's publicly available
•  It's available free of charge

All answers

Question	Answer	Comment
Openly licenced	Yes	TO REVIEWER: The State budget is intended to be open and there are no copyrights or patents covering it. The webpage does not contain an official statement that it is public domain.
In an open and machine-readable format	XLS	Detailed budget information is contained in its appendices (XLS files), in particular in the Appendix 4. Note: the budget page shows incorrect file type icons. Appendices are XLS files even though the icons can make one think that those are PDF files.
Downloadable at once	Yes	Detailed State budget is located in a
Up-to-date	Yes
Publicly available	Yes
Available free of charge	Yes
findable	4
findable_steps	Entered words "valsts budžets" in a search engine and clicked the first result.
licence_url	-
Collected by government	Yes
usability	1	The state budget is published as semi-structured XLS files (cell text indentation level shows budget entry hierarchy, not entirely machine-readable). I am uncertain if to rate the dataset usability as 1 or 2. The difficulty in using these files is that cell indention is Excel formatting feature and it can be lost when converting to other formats using open source tools. Without this information the budget file is useless.
collector_name	Latvijas Republikas Finanšu ministrija	https://www.fm.gov.lv
characteristics	Budget per government department, Budget per sub-department, Descriptions for budget sections	I am not sure how to evaluate if there are descriptions for budget sections. Every budget entry (spreadsheet line) has a title which can be viewed as a description.
location	https://www.fm.gov.lv/lv/sadalas/valsts_budzets/ - the main page for Latvia State budget, https://www.fm.gov.lv/lv/sadalas/valsts_budzets/2017__ga - Latvia State budget 2017 (main page), https://www.fm.gov.lv/files/valstsbudzets/2017/FMLikp04_ - detailed 2017 budget file (XLS)	To get to detailed state budget files (from Latvia State budget 2017 page) see "4.pielikums" for the main budget and "5.pielikums" for the special / social insurance fund budget.