Open data

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What each file contains

directory

Politicians, offices, and terms, with provenance per row.

Columns: politician_slug, full_name, party, office_slug, office_title, office_type, constituency, primary_region, start_date, end_date, currently_serving, source_name, source_url, document_reference, last_verified_at, confidence

cost-of-office

Statutory salary components by office type, effective-dated. Reported-unofficial figures are marked is_statutory=false and are never blended into a statutory total.

Columns: office_type, component_name, amount_tzs, frequency, annualised_tzs, is_statutory, effective_from, effective_to, source_name, source_url, document_reference, last_verified_at, confidence

budget-line-items

Budget line items per ministry and year, cited to the source PDF page.

Columns: ministry, vote_number, budget_year, vote_type, category, subcategory, amount_tzs, source_page_reference, source_name, source_url, document_reference, last_verified_at, confidence

regional-comparison

Cost of governance by region with methodology version. The contribution side is regional GDP, not tax collected. HDI reflects long-run development factors and must not be attributed to a current officeholder.

Columns: region, region_slug, fiscal_year, officeholder_compensation_tzs, officeholder_count, regional_secretariat_budget_tzs, economic_output_tzs, economic_output_year, output_is_proxy_for_tax, output_to_cost_ratio, methodology_version, methodology_note, computed_at

Licence

CC-BY 4.0. Use it as you wish, as long as you credit the source.

How to credit the source

Data from Wanasiasa (wanasiasa.com), licensed CC-BY.

Every file has a metadata file carrying sources, licence, and the date updated - machine readable.