PSDB provides data analyses which can be used to evaluate the effectiveness and the efficiency of local governments’ operation. The analyses might include those such as liquidity, solvability, budget variance, local revenue, independency, cash flow, and growth analyses. We also provide time series and cross sectional analyses to learn about the trend in a certain local government’s aspect and between-government comparisons.
We provide data for our members for mainly research purpose. Some of our data are abstracted from local governments’ financial statements and budgets, which include balance sheets, cash flow statements, and statements of budget realization and auditor opinions on those statements. Our database also provide data on geographic information such as population and area size of local governments, human development index and its components (i.e., life expectancy, mean years of schooling, and per capita expenditure). We are committed to continuously increase the number of variables included in the database.