Budget Transparency 2006

This Indicator represents the mean value of several questions from the Open Budget Survey, measuring transparency in the Executive’s Budget Proposal

Indicator Factsheet
Theme	Transparency
Component	Fiscal Transparency
Dataset	Index of Public Integrity
Name	Budget Transparency
Description	This Indicator represents the mean value of several questions from the Open Budget Survey, measuring transparency in the Executive’s Budget Proposal
Methodology snapshot	The simple mean value of the scores resulted from 14 specific questions from the Open Budget Survey that cover transparency of the Executive’s Budget Proposals. More information on questions and respective scores is presented in the full dataset. The data are to a large extent provided by the International Budget Partnership and in some cases, reliance is placed on their data. For these countries. For data extracted from the Open Budget Survey results, the same values are used for the 2019 and 2021 editions, as a new version has not yet been released. The value has been standardized and transformed to be in the range between 1 and 10, with 10 implying the highest budget transparency.
Scale	Low Budget Transparency to High Budget Transparency Note: For this indicator, max values are better.
Methodology	https://corruptionrisk.org/ipi-methodology/
Attribution	These materials were developed by the International Budget Partnership. IBP has given us permission to use the materials solely for noncommercial, educational purposes

A composite indicator derived from the T-Index assessing the online availability of public expenditure information.