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AGRICULTURE, FOREST AND RURAL ECON

Budget-vs-disclosure reconciliation by fiscal year. Budget is drawn from the General Revenue Fund estimates; disclosed is the sum of published grant payments, transactions, and contracts. Gaps typically live in operationally-independent entities (e.g. Alberta Health Services, universities) that consolidate into the ministry total but don’t disclose line-item payments via the Blue Book.

Data quality note

The largest absolute gap for this ministry is $347,595,351. Large gaps are expected when a ministry consolidates operationally-independent entities (AHS, universities, school boards) that publish financial statements but not transaction-level disclosures. See specs/data-quality-issues.md DQ-001 (ministry name merges) and DQ-016 (small-budget gap-pct overflow) for the known limitations.

ExpandFiscal yearBudgetDisclosed — GrantsDisclosed — TransactionsDisclosed — ContractsGapGap %
2022-2023$0$347,595,351$0$0-$347,595,351—
2021-2022$0$84,987,766$0$0-$84,987,766—
verification
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derivation
Per-fiscal-year reconciliation: budget from Government Estimates, disclosed totals summed from grants + transactions + contracts. `gap_amount = budget − disclosed_grant − disclosed_transaction − disclosed_contract` (spec 002 V5 invariant). Entity-category breakdown comes from `provincial_entity_reconciliation`.
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