bettergovph/gaa-2000-2026

Philippine General Appropriations Act (GAA), FY2000–FY2026

This table holds every amount we could read from 27 years of the General Appropriations Act, the budget law Congress passes each year. That is 5,432,425 rows in one schema, with amounts in exact pesos. Each row points back to the DBM document it came from.

Independent and unofficial. This is BetterGov's reading of the published GAA documents, not an official record. Amounts are appropriations, meaning what the law authorizes. They are not obligations, releases or spending. Detail changes from year to year, so read the coverage table before you compare years.

Before you compare years

• The level of detail changes:
  • 2015–2018 and 2020–2026 are line items by program, office, fund, expense class and object.
  • 2019 is by agency and object.
  • 2009–2013 is by program, area and expense class.
  • 2000–2008 and 2014 are agency, program or fund totals.
  • The grain column says which kind each row is.
• Three years had no new GAA. In 2001, 2004 and 2006 the previous year's GAA was reenacted (the 2000, 2003 and 2005 GAAs). DBM confirmed this in an FOI response. Those years have no rows and a null total in the coverage table. That means no separate new GAA was published, not a zero budget. We copy no amounts forward.
• Coverage before 2009 is partial. The national total for those years is not established, and some automatic appropriations are missing.
• Keep scopes apart:
  • unprogrammed_appropriations can only be spent under conditions, so keep it apart from programmed amounts.
  • In some early years, the new-appropriation tables include the IRA (the local government share) or debt interest. Later years leave those out.
  • In FY2003, the first-preference and second-preference appropriations are separate scopes, not duplicates of each other.
• FY2019 editions differ for DPWH. The technical edition prints ₱454,016,273,000 and the Volume I summary prints ₱549,390,514,000. We use the technical edition. We do not add a balancing amount, and we do not say what the difference is.
• Codes are not matched across decades. Older department, agency and object codes are kept as printed. Where an older object code is not a modern UACS code, it goes in source_object_code.
• What is excluded: debt principal amortization annexes and the operating budgets of government corporations.

Coverage by year

The recorded total adds up every row in that year, across all scopes. For partial years it is not the national budget.

Year	Rows	Recorded total	Coverage
2000	1,413	₱552,399,259,000	partial_historical_coverage
2001	0	—	reenacted_no_new_gaa
2002	1,218	₱758,275,751,000	partial_historical_coverage
2003	1,866	₱609,373,494,000	partial_historical_coverage
2004	0	—	reenacted_no_new_gaa
2005	1,016	₱598,447,548,000	partial_historical_coverage
2006	0	—	reenacted_no_new_gaa
2007	359	₱1,137,164,477,000	partial_historical_coverage
2008	357	₱1,276,910,060,000	partial_historical_coverage
2009	33,600	₱1,490,670,194,000	published_source_baseline
2010	33,540	₱1,659,513,946,000	published_source_baseline
2011	33,551	₱1,711,908,492,000	published_source_baseline
2012	37,235	₱1,968,821,845,000	published_source_baseline
2013	39,762	₱2,123,448,371,000	published_source_baseline
2014	358	₱2,404,532,259,000	published_source_baseline
2015	376,506	₱2,729,056,081,000	published_source_baseline
2016	412,821	₱3,069,300,000,000	published_source_baseline
2017	206,927	₱3,417,500,000,000	published_source_baseline
2018	518,333	₱3,842,340,000,000	published_source_baseline
2019	11,393	₱3,858,784,089,000	published_editions_differ
2020	542,735	₱4,099,988,785,000	published_source_baseline
2021	495,136	₱4,506,000,000,000	published_source_baseline
2022	525,900	₱5,023,600,000,000	published_source_baseline
2023	523,577	₱5,268,000,000,000	published_source_baseline
2024	532,082	₱5,767,600,000,000	published_source_baseline
2025	545,875	₱6,326,324,300,000	published_source_baseline
2026	556,865	₱6,793,162,000,000	published_source_baseline

Budget scopes

budget_scope	Rows	Pesos
existing_gaa_extract_scope	3,722,170	₱37,784,675,085,000
current_new_appropriations	1,625,220	₱18,796,850,885,000
automatic_appropriations	82,018	₱9,346,265,608,000
current_new_appropriations_first_preference	1,149	₱519,141,395,000
published_new_appropriations	1,067	₱2,994,199,509,000
current_new_appropriations_second_preference	716	₱35,956,219,000
unprogrammed_appropriations	85	₱1,516,032,250,000

existing_gaa_extract_scope covers the 2020–2026 extract, which spans every section of the GAA, including special purpose funds and automatic appropriations. Its scope was not reinterpreted.

How far each row has been checked

quality_status	Rows	Years
reconciled_to_existing_extract	3,722,170	2020–2026
source_normalized_pending_pdf_reconciliation	1,692,238	2009–2018
reconciled	16,664	2000–2019
published_summary_reconciled	713	2007–2008
vision_control_reconciled_pending_review	381	2014–2017
printed_control_pending_national_coverage_review	235	2000–2005
published_summary_visually_checked	22	2002–2019
published_native_control_reconciled	1	2018
published_amt_preserved_component_mismatch	1	2017

• reconciled_to_existing_extract: 2020–2026 carry the amounts of BetterGov's GAA extract (bettergovph/gaa), matching each year's total to the peso.
• source_normalized_pending_pdf_reconciliation: read from DBM's own CSV or spreadsheet files, but not yet checked line by line against the printed GAA.
• reconciled and published_summary_reconciled: these add up to the printed controls.
• vision_control_reconciled_pending_review: these rows were read from scanned pages and match the printed controls, but no person has reviewed them yet. A matching sum alone does not prove every line is right.
• printed_control_pending_national_coverage_review: a printed agency or fund control. Whether the year's coverage is complete has not been reviewed.

Files

File	Contents
gaa-2000-2026.parquet	Every year, in one file (the default config)
by-year/gaa-YYYY.parquet	The same rows, one file per year. The 2001, 2004 and 2006 files are empty
coverage.parquet, coverage.json	Per year: coverage status, rows, recorded total, amounts by scope, row counts by grain, notes (the coverage config)
series.json	One national row and one row per department for each year: the series behind the trend charts on budget.bettergov.ph/gaa. These are recorded sums labelled with each year's coverage, not a comparable national series
source-documents.json	Every link in DBM's GAA archive, with its URL, label, status, bytes and SHA-256. 4,229 files (10.4 GB) were downloaded
unavailable-sources.csv	The 42 archive entries (41 URLs) that DBM's site no longer serves
quality/*.json	The release validation, source audit, and parse and reconciliation reports for each year
manifest.json	Every file, with its bytes, SHA-256 and row count

SHA-256 of gaa-2000-2026.parquet: 41a4607e4562ef71a69af366784d59793af42431db1b58d13adcbc2ce772927a.

Columns

Column	Meaning
fy	Fiscal year.
department_id	Department code. 2020–2026 use the UACS department code (SPF and AUTO for the special purpose funds and automatic appropriations sections); earlier years keep the code or abbreviation the source prints. Codes are not crosswalked across decades.
department_dsc	Department name, as published.
agency_code	Agency code, where published.
agency_dsc	Agency name, as published.
fpap_code	Program, activity or project (P/A/P) code, where published.
fpap_dsc	Program, activity or project, as published.
program_code	The program the P/A/P rolls up to (2020–2026).
program_dsc	That program's name (2020–2026).
major_class	General Administration and Support, Support to Operations, Operations, or Special Purpose / Automatic, from the first digit of the P/A/P code (2020–2026).
prexc_level	Level in the program expenditure classification, where published.
operunit_code	Operating unit code.
operunit_dsc	Operating unit name.
div_code	Operating division code.
div_dsc	Operating division name.
region_code	Region code.
region_dsc	Region name.
fund_code	Fund code.
fund_dsc	Fund name or sub-category.
expense_code	Expense class code (1 Personnel Services, 2 MOOE, 3 Financial Expenses, 4 Capital Outlays, where modern codes apply).
expense_dsc	Expense class name.
object_code	UACS object code. Null on summary rows (program, agency, fund, department totals).
object_dsc	Object of expenditure name.
amount_thousands	The amount in thousands of pesos, for convenience.
amount	The amount in exact pesos (signed integer). Use this column.
record_id	Unique id of the fact.
grain	What one row is: program_operunit_fund_expense_object, program_area_expense, agency_object, program_total, agency_total, purpose_total, department_total or fund_total.
budget_scope	Which appropriation the amount belongs to. Compare only like scopes; see below.
source_year	The GAA the fact was read from.
budget_status	enacted for every row.
source_url	The DBM file the fact was read from (FY2000–2019).
source_member	The file inside that archive, or the extract file (2020–2026).
source_sha256	SHA-256 of the downloaded source file.
source_document_id	Id of the source document in source-documents.json.
source_page	Page in the source, where known.
source_line	Line on that page, where known.
source_text	The source line as read, where kept.
source_section_id	Section of the source the fact came from.
source_object_code	The source's own object code where it is not a modern UACS code.
quality_status	How far the fact has been checked; see below.

Columns a source does not publish are null.

Use it

from datasets import load_dataset

gaa = load_dataset("bettergovph/gaa-2000-2026", split="train")
coverage = load_dataset("bettergovph/gaa-2000-2026", "coverage", split="train")

import pandas as pd

fy2026 = pd.read_parquet("hf://datasets/bettergovph/gaa-2000-2026/by-year/gaa-2026.parquet")

-- DuckDB: compare like scopes only
SELECT fy, budget_scope, grain, count(*) AS rows, sum(amount) AS pesos
FROM 'hf://datasets/bettergovph/gaa-2000-2026/gaa-2000-2026.parquet'
GROUP BY ALL
ORDER BY ALL;

How this relates to bettergovph/gaa

bettergovph/gaa holds the FY2020–2026 extract in its original 22-column form, with 4,538,396 rows. It includes the program, agency and fund heading rows.

This dataset keeps only the 3,722,170 rows that carry an object code. The program heading for each line goes in program_code and program_dsc. The heading rows add nothing to the totals, so each year's total matches to the peso.

The gaa copy also has 11 rows more than the extract this dataset was built from (4 in 2022, 2 in 2024, 2 in 2025 and 3 in 2026), with the same totals.

Sources and method

• FY2000–2019: the DBM GAA archive. Collection followed the GAA panel and the article bodies it links to, including technical editions, annexes and the accompanying BESF tables. We downloaded alternate editions and schedules, but they do not count as amounts automatically.
• Formats: legacy CSVs, technical spreadsheets, and agency and object tables printed in PDFs. Scanned summaries were read with OCR, plus a vision model for some control pages. Every model response was checked against the printed totals, and no truncated response became a fact.
• FY2020–2026: BetterGov's GAA extract, normalized into this schema with counts and totals unchanged.
• Release checks:
  • one schema for every year, and a unique record_id on every row;
  • no null amounts, grains or scopes;
  • no source selected twice;
  • 2020–2026 unchanged;
  • the consolidated file and the yearly files have the same row counts and totals.
• Pipeline: scripts/gaa-history/ in bettergovph/ai-budget.

License

CC0 1.0. The GAA is a work of the Government of the Philippines, and no copyright subsists in it (Republic Act 8293, section 176). BetterGov dedicates its processing to the public domain. Credit is welcome: "BetterGov.ph, Philippine GAA FY2000–FY2026".

Report a problem

Open a discussion on this dataset's Community tab, or file an issue at bettergovph/ai-budget.

Citation

@misc{bettergov_gaa_2000_2026,
  title        = {Philippine General Appropriations Act (GAA), FY2000--FY2026},
  author       = {{BetterGov.ph}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/bettergovph/gaa-2000-2026}}
}