Supporting Documentation: Ministerial Expenditures by Type as per the Public Accounts of Canada

Volume 2, Table 2

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• General Notes
• 2006—2008 CSV data files
• 2009—2016 CSV data files
• 2017—2019 CSV data files
• 2020 CSV data file
• 2021—2025 CSV data files
• 2025 CSV data file

General Notes

• Amounts are rounded to the nearest thousand, matching how the values are represented in the associated table within the Public Accounts of Canada. As of the PAC 2025 release of this data, a new field Amount-units_Montant-unite has been added to the CSV file to clearly indicate this for all rows.
• If no amount is shown, either the expenditures were less than $500 or none were reported.
• Column Old-age-benefits_Prestations-vieillesse: Includes the guaranteed income supplement and the spouse's allowance.
• As of the 2025 release, the following columns were renamed to improve readability and bilingualism:
  • FSCL_YR was renamed to Fscl-yr_Ex-fin
  • MINC was renamed to Min-code
  • MINE was renamed to Min-portfolio_Portefeuille-min_eng
  • MINF was renamed to Min-portfolio_Portefeuille-min_fra
  • DepartmentNumber-Numéro-de-Ministère was renamed to Dept-nbr_No-min
  • DEPT_EN_DESC was renamed to Entity_Entite_eng
  • DEPT_FR_DESC was renamed to Entity_Entite_fra
  • Old-age-security-benefits was renamed to Old-age-benefits_Prestations-vieillesse
  • Prestations-de-sécurité-de-la-vieillesse was renamed to Old-age-benefits_Prestations-vieillesse
  • Canada-health-transfer was renamed to Health-xfr_Trnsf-sante
  • Transfert-canadien-en-matière-de-santé was renamed to Health-xfr_Trnsf-sante
  • Canada-social-transfer was renamed to Social-xfr_Trnsf-sociaux
  • Transfert-canadien-en-matière-de-programmes-sociaux was renamed to Social-xfr_Trnsf-sociaux
  • Fiscal-arrangements was renamed to Fiscal-arrangements_Accords-fiscaux
  • Accords-fiscaux was renamed to Fiscal-arrangements_Accords-fiscaux
  • Quebec-abatement was renamed to QC-abatement_Abattement-QC
  • Abattement-du-Québec was renamed to QC-abatement_Abattement-QC
  • Other was renamed to Other_Autres
  • Autres was renamed to Other_Autres
  • Other-program-expenditures was renamed to Other-prog-xpend_Autres-depenses-prog
  • Autres-dépenses-de-programmes was renamed to Other-prog-xpend_Autres-depenses-prog
  • Public-debt-charges was renamed to Public-debt-charges_Frais-dette-publique
  • Frais-de-la-dette-publique was renamed to Public-debt-charges_Frais-dette-publique
• As of the 2025 release, the Total-ministerial-net-expenditures and Total-des-dépenses-ministérielles-nettes columns were removed as they can be recreated by totalling the other numerical values of each record.

2006—2008 CSV data files

Note: Columns "Old age security benefits, Canada health and social transfer, Fiscal arrangements, Alternative payments for standing programs and Other": Transfer payments for employment insurance benefits and Canada child tax benefits are reported in Table 2a of Volume II, Public Accounts of Canada of the corresponding year.

2009—2016 CSV data files

Notes:

• Columns "Old age security benefits, Canada health and social transfer, Fiscal arrangements, Alternative payments for standing programs and Other": Transfer payments for employment insurance benefits are reported in Table 2a of Volume II, Public Accounts of Canada of the corresponding year.
• Column "Other": Transfer payments for Canada child tax benefits are reported in Table 2a of Volume II, Public Accounts of Canada of the corresponding year.

2017—2019 CSV data files

Notes:

• Columns "Old age security benefits, Canada health transfer, Canada social transfer, Fiscal arrangements, Quebec abatement and Other": Transfer payments for employment insurance are reported in Table 2a of Volume II, Public Accounts of Canada of the corresponding year.
• Column "Other": Includes transfer payments for Canada child benefits.

2020 CSV data file

Notes:

• Columns "Old age security benefits, Canada health transfer, Canada social transfer, Fiscal arrangements, Quebec abatement and Other": Transfer payments for employment insurance are reported in Table 2a of Volume II, Public Accounts of Canada 2020.
• Column "Other": Includes transfer payments Canada children’s benefits, fuel charge proceeds returned and Canada emergency response benefits.

2021—2025 CSV data files

Notes:

• Columns "Old age security benefits, Canada health transfer, Canada social transfer, Fiscal arrangements, Quebec abatement and Other": Transfer payments for employment insurance, Children’s benefits, pollution pricing framework proceeds returned and Canada emergency response benefits are reported in Table 2a of Volume II, Public Accounts of Canada of the corresponding year.
• Column "Other": Includes other major transfers and other transfer payments.

2025 CSV data file

Notes:

• As of March 14, 2025, the appropriate Minister for Parks Canada Agency and the Department for Women and Gender Equality is the Minister of Canadian Heritage. Parks Canada and Women, Gender Equality and Youth have been reported under Canadian Heritage in Sections 2 and 3 of Volume I but reflected separately in all other sections of the Public Accounts.

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