Spanish regions' budget data

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The Spanish Ministry of Finance collects a summary of the budgets for each of the 17 Spanish regions. Unfortunately, the website is really bad and data can't be downloaded in bulk and in an open format. On top of this, there is very little detail in the data: for example, the functional spending is broken down at the policy level, i.e. high-level items like 'Health' or 'Education'; with less than 30 items in total.

More detailed data can be found going to the Open Data portals from some of the regions themselves. The Euskadi region was the first one to publish their data in open formats: the list of budgets can be found here. For example, 2015. Each budget dataset is composed of a number of CSV files: one for expenditures, one for revenues, and four extra ones containing the functional/economic/institutional classifications. (The institutional classification is spread across two files, for no good reason.)

Aragon was the next region to publish its budgets openly, and reused the same format as Euskadi, with only some minor tweaks: Euskadi has two official languages, while Aragon has only one, so some description columns are gone; and Aragon introduced a new 'funding' classification, detailing for example whether certain revenues were provided by the EU for certain fixed goals, versus tax money to be allocated freely. (This funding classification is quite unusual, and probably unique in Spain: if other regions use it in Spain they do internally, and they do not publish it.)