govexp: government spending

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government spending

Description

Government expenditures based on COFOG categories

Format

A (tidy) data frame with 5140 observations on the following 4 variables.

• country Country of origin

• category The COFOG expenditures are divided into in the following ten categories: general public services; defence; public order and safety; economic affairs; environmental protection; housing and community amenities; health; recreation, culture and religion; education; and social protection.

• year Year

• value COFOG spendings/expenditures

Details

The general government sector consists of central, state and local governments, and the social security funds controlled by these units. The data are based on the system of national accounts, a set of internationally agreed concepts, definitions, classifications and rules for national accounting. The classification of functions of government (COFOG) is used as classification system. The central government spending by category is measured as a percentage of total expenditures.

Author(s)

translated from https://data.oecd.org/ and restructured by Matthias Templ

Source

OECD: https://data.oecd.org/

Examples

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