Financial Information of Universities Survey (FINUNI)

Allocated expenditure of economy, category

Allocated expenditure refers to whether a given source of fund is distributed to an institution or beneficiary and to what geographical area, Canadian provinces and territories or abroad. Source: suggested definition

Economy refers to the entire set of resident institutional units. It is divided into sectors that consists of groups of resident institutional units. An institutional unit is resident in a country when it has a centre of economic interest in the economic territory of that country. It is said to have a centre of economic interest when there exists some location - dwelling, place of production or other premises - within the economic territory on, or from, which it engages, and intends to continue to engage, in economic activities and transactions on a significant scale either indefinitely or over a finite period of time.

The data for this variable are reported using the following classifications and/or lists:

• Status of allocated expenditures