Expenditure of gminas and cities with powiat status budgets - Expenditure on local self-government administration
This API provides access to a subject area of Poland's Local Data Bank (Bank Danych Lokalnych, BDL), maintained by GUS (Statistics Poland). It covers subject P2653, expenditure on local self-government administration, drawn from the budgets of gminas and cities with powiat status. Data are presented as yearly territorial time series, spanning administrative levels from voivodship down to gmina, with each unit identified by its TERYT code. The dataset falls under the public finance category and is classified as archival data, useful for analysing historical local government administrative spending across Poland.PUBLIC FINANCE › ARCHIVAL DATA. Local Data Bank (BDL) subject P2653: yearly territorial series for Poland (voivodship to gmina level), units keyed by TERYT ids.
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Data schema (8 fields)
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| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| variable_idVariable id | string | GUS variable id selecting the measured series of subject P2653 (the n1/n2 dimension combination): 77171=gminas include cities with powiat status / total [PLN]; 77168=gminas include cities with powiat status / current expenditure of budgetary units, total [PLN]; 77165=gminas include cities with powiat status / property expenditure, total [PLN]; 77162=gminas include cities with powiat status / municipal gmina councils [PLN]; 77159=gminas include cities with powiat status / gmina offices - cities [PLN]; 77156=gminas include cities with powiat status / powiat starosty for cities with powiat rights [PLN]; 77153=gminas include cities with powiat status / powiat councils for cities with powiat rights [PLN]; 77169=gminas without cities with powiat status / total [PLN]; 77166=gminas without cities with powiat status / current expenditure of budgetary units, total [PLN]; 77163=gminas without cities with powiat status / property expenditure, total [PLN]; 77160=gminas without cities with powiat status / municipal gmina councils [PLN]; 77157=gminas without cities with powiat status / gmina offices - cities [PLN]; 77154=gminas without cities with powiat status / powiat starosty for cities with powiat rights [PLN]; 77151=gminas without cities with powiat status / powiat councils for cities with powiat rights [PLN]; 77170=cities with powiat status / total [PLN]; … (21 variables — GET https://bdl.stat.gov.pl/api/v1/variables?subject-id=P2653 for the full list). |
| unit_levelUnit level | integer | Territorial aggregation level: 0=Poland, 1=macroregion, 2=voivodship (województwo), 3=region, 4=subregion, 5=powiat, 6=gmina. |
| year | integer | Reference year of the value (yearly series, back to 1995 for the oldest subjects). Filters server-side via the API's year parameter. |
| unit_idUnit id | string | 12-digit BDL territorial-unit id (macroregion+voivodship+region+subregion+powiat+gmina+type digits). An equality filter pins the unit server-side (unit-parent-id). |
| unit_nameUnit name | string | — |
| teryt_tercTeryt terc | string | TERYT TERC territorial code derived from the unit id (2 digits = voivodship, 4 = powiat, 7 = gmina incl. type digit; empty for NUTS-only units). |
| value | number | — |
| attr_idAttr id | integer | GUS value-attribute id (data quality/annotation flag). |
Schema captured from bdl 7 days ago.
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Sample data (8 records)
| variable_id | unit_level | year | unit_id | unit_name | teryt_terc | value | attr_id |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77171 | 6 | 1995 | 011212001011 | Bochnia | 1201011 | 1371038 | 1 |
| 77171 | 6 | 1996 | 011212001011 | Bochnia | 1201011 | 1746524 | 1 |
| 77171 | 6 | 1997 | 011212001011 | Bochnia | 1201011 | 2155522 | 1 |
| 77171 | 6 | 1998 | 011212001011 | Bochnia | 1201011 | 2630222 | 1 |
| 77171 | 6 | 1999 | 011212001011 | Bochnia | 1201011 | 3090882 | 1 |
| 77171 | 6 | 2000 | 011212001011 | Bochnia | 1201011 | 3622228 | 1 |
| 77171 | 6 | 1995 | 011212001022 | Bochnia | 1201022 | 735883 | 1 |
| 77171 | 6 | 1996 | 011212001022 | Bochnia | 1201022 | 1037019 | 1 |
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Using the API
Configuration
- Base URL
- https://bdl.stat.gov.pl/api/v1/subjects/P2653
License
- ✓ Redistributable
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Query examples
curl -s 'https://bdl.stat.gov.pl/api/v1/data/by-variable/77171?unit-level=6&page-size=10&format=json&lang=en'Yearly values of variable 77171 (gminas include cities with powiat status / total [PLN]) per territorial unit. Filters: unit-level=0–6, year=YYYY, unit-parent-id={12-digit unit id}; page-size ≤ 100. Anonymous limits: 5 req/s, 100 req/15 min.
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