Name: Central government operations: budgetary balance, non-budgetary transactions, and financial source/requirement
Creator: Statistics Canada
License: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada

Central government operations: budgetary balance, non-budgetary transactions, and financial source/requirement — AI AnalysisStatistics Canada's Table 10100133 provides 16 years of monthly federal fiscal data (April 2009–December 2025) across 26 categories, revealing a heavily skewed distribution where the mean value of $3,671M dwarfs the median of just $22M, driven by a handful of extremely large transactions. The dataseKey Findings

The dataset spans 201 monthly periods from April 2009 to December 2025, containing 5,226 rows and 26 distinct fiscal metrics all measured in millions of Canadian dollars.

Values range enormously from -$84,351M to +$135,825M CAD, with a standard deviation of $12,316M, reflecting dramatic differences in scale across budgetary and non-budgetary transaction categories.

The mean value of $3,671M is roughly 167 times larger than the median of $22M, confirming a heavily right-skewed distribution driven by a small number of very large fiscal flows.

41.6% of all recorded values are negative (deficits or outflows) while 58.4% are positive (surpluses or inflows), indicating the government more frequently recorded inflows but faced significant deficit periods.

The top 3 categories by average value — Expenses, Program Expenses, and Revenues — represent the largest fiscal components and anchor the budgetary balance analysis.

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