Supporting Documentation: Recapitulation of External Expenses by Type as per the Public Accounts of Canada—Volume 2, Table 2a

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.
• Details of other transfer payments are presented in Table 2b of Volume 2 of Public Accounts of Canada.
• As of the 2025 release, the following columns were renamed to improve readability and bilingualism:
  • FSCL_YR was renamed to Fscl-yr_Ex-fin
  • SECTION_EN was renamed to Section-lvl1_niv1_eng
  • SECTION_FR was renamed to Section-lvl1_niv1_fra
  • SUB-SECTION was renamed to Section-lvl2_niv2_eng
  • SOUS-SECTION was renamed to Section-lvl2_niv2_fra
  • SUB-SUB-SECTION was renamed to Section-lvl3_niv3_eng
  • SOUS-SOUS-SECTION was renamed to Section-lvl3_niv3_fra
  • SUB-SUB-SUB-SECTION was renamed to Section-lvl4_niv4_eng
  • SOUS-SOUS-SOUS-SECTION was renamed to Section-lvl4_niv4_fra
  • Ttl-min-net-exp_Ttl-dép-min-nettes was renamed to Ttl-min-net-exp_Ttl-dep-min-nettes
  • Cons-spec-purpose-accnts_Cmpts-fins-dét-cons was renamed to Cons-special-accnts_Cmpts-determinees-cons
  • Accrual-and-other-adjs_Redressements-courus-et-autres was renamed to Accrual-and-other-adjs_Redressements-courus-et-autres
  • Cons-Crown-corps-and-other-ents_Socs-d'État-et-autres-ents-cons was renamed to Xpns-CC-other-ents_Dep-SE-autres-ents
  • Tax-credits-and-repayments_Crédits-et-remboursements-fiscaux was renamed to Tax-credits-and-repay_Credits-et-rembours-fiscaux

2008—2018 CSV data files

Details of other ministries are presented in Table 2c of Volume 2 of Public Accounts of Canada.

2025 CSV data files

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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