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HistoryClassification of the Functions of Government (COFOG) is a classification defined by the United Nations Statistics Division. Its purpose is to "classify the purpose of transactions such as outlays on final consumption expenditure, intermediate consumption, gross capital formation and capital and current transfers, by general government" (from home page).
These functions are designed to be general enough to apply to the government of different countries. The accounts of each country in the United Nations are presented under these categories.
The value of this is that the accounts of different countries can be compared.
Data
Data was sourced from UN site and extracted using the scripts found in the datapkg. In addition to the UN site, versions of COFOG can also be found on Eurostat with one advantage of the Eurostat data being the availability of additional languages (e.g. German).
Gdocs version was derived from full csv (itself extracted by code in datapkg package -- which includes the csv). Gdocs version is editable and has had additional material added by community.
License
No license specified but factual data and extraction and normalization of the csv file done by Maintainer.
Resources
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[open and standardized format] ★★★★★ "Linked to other data to provide context."★★★★ "Uses URIs to identify things, so that people can link to it."★★★ "Uses non-proprietary formats (e.g., CSV instead of Excel)."★★ "Available as structured data (eg. Excel instead of a scanned table)."★ "Available under an open license."
COFOG English, full structure plus detailed description
http://www.archive.org/download/ckan-cofog/cofog.csv [downloaded 43 times]
datapkg (mercurial) package for cofog (includes csv and compile script)
Official access database (zipped) from the UN (used in the datapkg)
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/registry/regdntransfer.asp?f=186 [downloaded 6 times]
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[machine readable format] ★★★★★ "Linked to other data to provide context."★★★★ "Uses URIs to identify things, so that people can link to it."★★★ "Uses non-proprietary formats (e.g., CSV instead of Excel)."★★ "Available as structured data (eg. Excel instead of a scanned table)."★ "Available under an open license."
The Treasury record of COFOG functions.
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/cofog_definitions_coins250609.xls [downloaded 16 times]
COFOG English, full structure in gdocs (for editing)
HTML version of COFOG on UN site
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/registry/regcst.asp?Cl=4&Lg=1 [downloaded 15 times]
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[machine readable format] ★★★★★ "Linked to other data to provide context."★★★★ "Uses URIs to identify things, so that people can link to it."★★★ "Uses non-proprietary formats (e.g., CSV instead of Excel)."★★ "Available as structured data (eg. Excel instead of a scanned table)."★ "Available under an open license."
Czech Republic COFOG more details at http://tinyurl.com/CzechCOFOG
Additional Information
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Source | http://unstats.un.org/unsd/class/family/family2.asp?Cl=4 |
| Author | United Nations |
| Maintainer | Open Knowledge Foundation (Where Does My Money Go) |
| Version | 1999 |
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