Expenditure of voivodships budgets - Expenditure on social welfare
This dataset is part of Poland's Local Data Bank (Bank Danych Lokalnych, BDL), maintained by the Central Statistical Office (GUS). It falls under subject code P1587, within the public finance and archival data category, and provides yearly territorial time series on voivodship budget expenditure allocated to social welfare. Figures are broken down across administrative levels, from voivodships down to gminas, with each unit identified by its official TERYT code. The data is accessible via the BDL API without authentication and can be used for regional and historical analysis of public social welfare spending patterns across Poland's administrative divisions.PUBLIC FINANCE › ARCHIVAL DATA. Local Data Bank (BDL) subject P1587: 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 code identifying the measured expenditure series.GUS variable id selecting the measured series of subject P1587 (the n1/n2 dimension combination): 6512=total [PLN]; 6513=current expenditure of budgetary units, total [PLN]; 6514=property expenditure, total [PLN]. |
| unit_levelUnit level | integer | Territorial aggregation level, from country to gmina.Territorial aggregation level: 0=Poland, 1=macroregion, 2=voivodship (województwo), 3=region, 4=subregion, 5=powiat, 6=gmina. |
| year | integer | Reference year of the yearly data value.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 code identifying the territorial unit.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 | Name of the territorial unit.Name of the territorial unit. |
| teryt_tercTeryt terc | string | TERYT TERC administrative code of the territorial unit.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 | Reported expenditure value for the given unit, year and variable.Reported expenditure value for the given unit, year and variable. |
| attr_idAttr id | integer | GUS attribute code indicating data quality or annotation status.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6512 | — | 1999 | 000000000000 | POLAND | — | 8851647 | 1 |
| 6512 | — | 2000 | 000000000000 | POLAND | — | 27544215 | 1 |
| 6512 | — | 2001 | 000000000000 | POLAND | — | 141842667 | 1 |
| 6512 | — | 2002 | 000000000000 | POLAND | — | 65194051 | 1 |
| 6512 | — | 2003 | 000000000000 | POLAND | — | 71508158 | 1 |
| 6512 | — | 1999 | 010000000000 | MACROREGION POŁUDNIOWY | — | 1376173 | 1 |
| 6512 | — | 2000 | 010000000000 | MACROREGION POŁUDNIOWY | — | 3912995 | 1 |
| 6512 | — | 2001 | 010000000000 | MACROREGION POŁUDNIOWY | — | 23136593 | 1 |
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Configuration
- Base URL
- https://bdl.stat.gov.pl/api/v1/subjects/P1587
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Query examples
curl -s 'https://bdl.stat.gov.pl/api/v1/data/by-variable/6512?page-size=10&format=json&lang=en'Yearly values of variable 6512 (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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