Spending 100% open

Asheville, NC

What data is expected?

Open spending data informs citizens, journalists, and government officials alike as to just how public funds are being spent. Spending data should include a complete list of city expenditures at a detailed transactional level (including tax breaks, loans, contracts, grants, and operational spending). In other words, records should be fairly granular, covering, for instance, month to month expenditures on specific items costing in the thousands rather than the millions. This data category refers to detailed ongoing data on actual expenditures; a database of contracts awarded is not considered sufficient. (More info)

  • Expense type or category
  • Expense description
  • Amount

How open is the data?

All answers

Question Answer Comment
Openly licensed Yes
Available in bulk Yes
Up-to-date Yes
Available free online Yes
Available free of charge Yes
In an open format CSV, HTML
findable 3
findable_steps data.ashevillenc.gov - search vendors
licence_url https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/summary/
Collected by government Yes
usability 2
collector_name City of Asheville
characteristics Expense type or category, Expense description, Amount
location https://data.ashevillenc.gov/datasets/4b3a21b437b44d4990 - Vendor Payments, https://data.ashevillenc.gov/datasets/8317f50fbd7e4a5e85 - Vendors, https://data.ashevillenc.gov/datasets/8317f50fbd7e4a5e85 - Purchase Order Line Items, https://data.ashevillenc.gov/datasets/b523d67da65f4db6a0 - Invoices, https://data.ashevillenc.gov/datasets/1b4582e12868443b93 - Purchase Order Summary

Meta data

Data location   https://data.ashevillenc.gov/datasets/4b3a21b437b44d4990 - Vendor Payments
   https://data.ashevillenc.gov/datasets/8317f50fbd7e4a5e85 - Vendors
   https://data.ashevillenc.gov/datasets/8317f50fbd7e4a5e85 - Purchase Order Line Items
   https://data.ashevillenc.gov/datasets/b523d67da65f4db6a0 - Invoices
   https://data.ashevillenc.gov/datasets/1b4582e12868443b93 - Purchase Order Summary
Data licence   https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/summary/
Data format   CSV, HTML
Reviewer   Patrick Conant
Submitters   Patrick Conant
Last modified   Fri Mar 02 2018 01:14:34 GMT+0000 (UTC)