Wikidata:Property proposal/state and local combined government revenue
State and local combined government revenue edit
Not done
| Description | combined total of state and local government revenue. |
|---|---|
| Data type | Number (not available yet) |
| Domain | Countries |
| Allowed values | Number, currency. positive |
| Example | $98 billion |
| Source | http://www2.census.gov/govs/local/summary_report.pdf |
| Robot and gadget jobs | A robot should update this |
- Motivation
state and local finance is important for macroeconomic analysis Mcnabber091 (talk) 23:06, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
- Discussion
Comment this property should be a single $ amount Mcnabber091 (talk) 23:06, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
- Mcnabber091 Is this a number issued by reliable sources or is it just calculated? If it is calculated then we could calculate it ourselves and we don't need this property. Joe Filceolaire (talk) 16:07, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
- @Filceolaire: I think that this property is needed because I think it will be hard to internally calculate it within Wikidata. Most state and local governments don't easily provide this information, so it would be unrealistic that Wikidata could sum up every city and localities' budget entered into Wikidata and produce a good estimate. State and local combined government spending can be found for the United States in this report: http://www2.census.gov/govs/local/summary_report.pdf. I like this type of estimate because it reliable. Mcnabber091 (talk) 09:46, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
- I think that for calculable properties, I would suggest having two references: the statistic from directly for a source and our internally calculated statistic. That way the reader would have both. Mcnabber091 (talk) 21:16, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
- @Filceolaire: I think that this property is needed because I think it will be hard to internally calculate it within Wikidata. Most state and local governments don't easily provide this information, so it would be unrealistic that Wikidata could sum up every city and localities' budget entered into Wikidata and produce a good estimate. State and local combined government spending can be found for the United States in this report: http://www2.census.gov/govs/local/summary_report.pdf. I like this type of estimate because it reliable. Mcnabber091 (talk) 09:46, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
- Then I
Support this. Joe Filceolaire (talk) 18:34, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
Question @Mcnabber091: This is supposed to be a USA only property? Lymantria (talk) 06:27, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Lymantria:This property should apply to every country. It combines all of the government budgets into a total budget and then a balance is determined. Some countries provide this information such as the United States.Mcnabber091 (talk) 06:10, 17 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Mcnabber091: The problem is that not all countries have the same form of subdivision as the USA have. Actually, many of them don't. Shouldn't the property read "combined revenue for all subnational governments within a country"? Same for the propositions on "state and local governments combined" below. Lymantria (talk) 07:11, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
@Mcnabber091: 
Not done, open questions, no support --Srittau (talk) 22:01, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
@Srittau: @Lymantria: I agree Lymantria that it should be renamed to 'all subnational governments'. If I make that change will this work?Mcnabber091 (talk) 01:31, 12 June 2016 (UTC)