Expenditure of voivodships budgets - Expenditure on culture and art

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This API provides access to subject P1583 of Poland's Local Data Bank (Bank Danych Lokalnych, BDL), covering voivodship budget expenditure on culture and art. It offers yearly territorial statistical series, structured from voivodship down to gmina level, with administrative units identified by TERYT codes. The data falls under the public finance and archival data category and is maintained by Statistics Poland (GUS). It is intended for retrieving historical regional public spending figures on cultural and artistic activities across Poland's territorial divisions, supporting analysis of local government finance over time.','}].join('')PUBLIC FINANCE › ARCHIVAL DATA. Local Data Bank (BDL) subject P1583: 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 P1583 (the n1/n2 dimension combination): 6502=total [PLN]; 6503=current expenditure of budgetary units, total [PLN]; 6504=property expenditure [PLN]; 6505=expenditure in chapter 92116 - Libraries [PLN]; 6506=culture centres [PLN].
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).

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Sample data (8 records)

variable_id	unit_level	year	unit_id	unit_name	teryt_terc	value	attr_id
6502	—	1999	000000000000	POLAND	—	499438354	1
6502	—	2000	000000000000	POLAND	—	571468997	1
6502	—	1999	010000000000	MACROREGION POŁUDNIOWY	—	77888930	1
6502	—	2000	010000000000	MACROREGION POŁUDNIOWY	—	97715508	1
6502	—	1999	011200000000	MAŁOPOLSKIE	12	37493744	1
6502	—	2000	011200000000	MAŁOPOLSKIE	12	47103038	1
6502	—	1999	011210000000	REGION MAŁOPOLSKIE	—	37493744	1
6502	—	2000	011210000000	REGION MAŁOPOLSKIE	—	47103038	1

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Base URL: https://bdl.stat.gov.pl/api/v1/subjects/P1583

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curl -s 'https://bdl.stat.gov.pl/api/v1/data/by-variable/6502?page-size=10&format=json&lang=en'

Yearly values of variable 6502 (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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