Observed arrival · 2026-10-03
BudgetState: Dutch municipal budgets versus actual spending
A public-data project compares what Dutch municipalities budgeted with what they later reported spending and receiving.
- For
- Readers tracking Dutch municipal spending
- Worth noticing
- The project compares municipal budget and accounts reports filed with Statistics Netherlands (CBS), covering 342 municipalities from 2017 to 2025.
Field notes
The page says it aligns annual budgets adopted before the year with later accounts submitted to Statistics Netherlands, including line items and amendments passed during the year. Its dataset spans 2017–2025 and lists 6,713 reports and 2,495,775 filled lines; the homepage organizes results by policy area, municipality rankings, municipality and province lookup, and funding-flow sections. It also flags six municipalities that did not file both reports.
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