National government budget at a high level, that is the planned government expenditure for the upcoming year, and not the actual expenditure. Open budget data allows for well-informed publics: showing where money is spent on, how public funds develop over time, and why certain activities are funded. We recommend that you consult our methodology section for more information.
Question | Answer | Comment |
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Openly licenced | No | For this dataset the license has not been specified. http://www.datosabiertos.gob.pa/dataset?license_id=notspecified |
In an open and machine-readable format | PDF Review: changed B8, open data was not available anymore, and the full budget was only available in PDF. | |
Downloadable at once | Yes | |
Up-to-date | Yes | |
Publicly available | Yes | |
Available free of charge | Yes | |
findable | 3 | |
findable_steps | 1. Google Search for Open data Panamá, 2. click on MEF link, 3. Download Data | Is easy to find trough the portal, on the website is not that easy. Review: the open data portal link was empty, the execution data for 2016 per month was available, but not the state budget as a whole. |
Collected by government | Yes | |
usability | 2 | |
collector_name | Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas (MEF) | |
characteristics | Budget per government department, Budget per sub-department, Descriptions for budget sections | In the law in the government gazette the departments and sub-departments and programs are provided. http://www.mef.gob.pa/es/direcciones/presupuestoNacion/Documents/pre_2017_ley.pdf |
location | http://www.datosabiertos.gob.pa/dataset/http-www-mef-go - Open Data Portal (Recently Launched), http://www.datosabiertos.gob.pa/organization/mef - Open Data Portal - MEF filter = Empty, http://www.mef.gob.pa/es/Paginas/home.aspx - MEF website, http://www.mef.gob.pa/es/direcciones/presupuestoNacion/ - Budget law in gazette |
The law is available from the government gazette. But the machine readable data only for expenditure per month.