Data Description: This data set includes the approved budget for every department each fiscal year from 2004 to present. This data is structured to report how much money is budgeted for each object code and object category by department and fiscal year.

Data Creation: When the City Annual Budget is approved at the end of the fiscal year the budgets of each department are entered into the Cincinnati Financial System for reporting purposes.

Data Created By: The Cincinnati Financial System (CFS)

Refresh Frequency: Daily

Data Dictionary: A data dictionary providing definitions of columns and attributes is available as an attachment to this dataset.

Processing: The City of Cincinnati is committed to providing the most granular and accurate data possible. In that pursuit the Office of Performance and Data Analytics facilitates standard processing to most raw data prior to publication. Processing includes but is not limited: address verification, geocoding, decoding attributes, and addition of administrative areas (i.e. Census, neighborhoods, police districts, etc.).

Data Usage: For directions on downloading and using open data please visit our How-to Guide: https://data.cincinnati-oh.gov/dataset/Open-Data-How-To-Guide/gdr9-g3ad