{"@context":{"prov":"http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#","schema":"https://schema.org/"},"id":"https://www.spendledger.org/trust/oh/provenance.json","humanReadable":"https://www.spendledger.org/trust/oh","dataset":{"type":["schema:Dataset","prov:Entity"],"name":"Ohio state vendor payments (SpendLedger)","dataVersion":"2026-07-12 19:40:25.830063+00","coverage":{"max_date":"2025-06-26","min_date":"2022-01-03","payments":24768843,"fiscal_years":[2022,2023,2024,2025]}},"source":{"type":"prov:Entity","name":"Ohio Checkbook (checkbook.ohio.gov)","url":"https://checkbook.ohio.gov","role":"official government transparency portal; system of record"},"collection":{"type":"prov:Activity","method":"official bulk download","archival":"raw records stored as received, append-only, SHA-256 fingerprinted","normalization":"deterministic rules only; original names preserved; no fuzzy matching, no imputation"},"qaGates":[{"name":"Extraction integrity","result":"Published payment facts re-derived from the raw archive match to the penny: identical row counts and dollar sums."},{"name":"No orphan payments","result":"Every payment resolves to a vendor and an agency record. Zero orphans."},{"name":"Duplicate rate","result":"0.0000% duplicates on the natural-key fingerprint across 24.8 million payments."},{"name":"Portal reconciliation","result":"Fiscal-year dollar totals reconcile against Ohio's own published figures within a documented tolerance (details below)."}],"reconciliation":{"period":"FY 2025","portal":{"label":"Ohio Checkbook, total FY 2025 spending (all agencies)","url":"https://checkbook.ohio.gov/State/Expenses/Type.aspx"},"portalFigure":"104700247497.31","capturedOn":"2026-07-08","adjustments":[{"label":"Personal Services","amount":"6223189059.80","reason":"State payroll. The checkbook transaction feed we ingest covers vendor payments, not employee pay, which Ohio publishes separately."},{"label":"Transfers and Non-Expense","amount":"13780577728.83","reason":"Internal fund movements, not payments to outside vendors."}],"comparableFigure":"84696480708.68","ourFigure":"83991873862.58","gapPct":"0.832","tolerancePct":"1.0","passes":true},"caveats":["Coverage begins January 3, 2022, when Ohio's usable bulk data begins. Fiscal year 2022 is therefore partial (Ohio's FY 2022 started July 1, 2021).","Fiscal year 2026 records are loaded in our archive but not yet published on this site while a data-quality issue in the state's file is resolved.","Payments to individuals that Ohio's own search tool masks are withheld by name here as well; their dollars remain in agency totals."],"reportReviewed":"2026-07-09"}