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Where Does My Money Go: Data

Purpose: Obtain and structure data relevant to Where Does My Money Go. Main focus is on governments finances (income and expenditure) for the UK.

Part of Where Does My Money Go

• The datasets we know about in nutshell
• Data Wrangler's Guide - A page designed just for our volunteers
• More detail on the datasets including questions on each
• Data page on http://www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/
• Get Involved
• A proposal for organizing data for visualization (from iconomical)
• Data listings
  • WDMMG group on CKAN
  • WDMMG Data summary (Google doc)
  • Local data on openlylocal.com
• Overviews:
  • PESA wiki page
• Old Information

Overview of Our Data

The majority of our present data comes from the Public Expenditure Statistical Analysis (PESA) which is the highest level breakdown of Government spending. However, we aim to have information at a much more granular level down to the lowest levels of government expenditure.