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Welcome to the 2007 OECD Budget Practices and Procedures Database. The information held in the database is made available free of charge. However, the data are protected by copyright and we request that you be sure to cite the OECD as the source ("OECD Budget Practices and Procedures Database, www.oecd.org/gov/budget/database").
Furthermore, to help us track the impact, we would appreciate receiving electronic copies of any papers that cite the database, to be sent to the following address: gov.budgetdata@oecd.org.
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To view the 2007 OECD Budget Database,
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A short user guide
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The purpose of the OECD Budget Practices and Procedures Database is to provide budget practitioners and academics the opportunity to compare and contrast national budgeting and financial management practices with a view to share experiences and best practices. It is a unique, comprehensive and free resource that covers the entire budget cycle: preparation, approval, execution, accounting and audit, and performance information.
The information provided in this database is from the 2007 OECD Budget Practices and Procedures Survey. It was conducted in English, French and Spanish; a glossary was provided in English, French and Spanish. The Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division of the OECD first conducted a survey of budget practices and procedures in 2003 in co-operation with the World Bank. This second edition of the survey, conducted in 2007, was extensively revised and shortened, taking into account advice and recommendations from practitioners and academics in the field.
The responses from the 2007 survey are available on this interface for 38 countries: the 30 OECD member countries and 8 non members: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Israel, Peru, Slovenia and Venezuela. The survey was conducted via an online questionnaire which was available in English, French and Spanish, but the 2007 database is only in English at present. The majority of the responses were submitted between January and April 2007. Responses were initially verified by the delegates to the annual meeting of the OECD Working Party of Senior Budget Officials held in Istanbul, Turkey, 31 May – 1 June 2007. Additional verification of the responses was conducted over the summer in 2007.
A short user guide is available by clicking on the appropriate link in the database.
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A pilot project for some Latin American countries was conducted from October 2005 through May 2006, in co-operation with the Inter-American Development Bank and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Thirteen Latin American countries completed the full 2005 questionnaire: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. The preliminary aggregate results are available in Excel®.
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To view the results of the 2003 OECD/World Bank Survey,
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For additional information on this project, please contact the OECD secretariat at gov.budgetdata@oecd.org.
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