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Add Value.date field #988
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Perhaps a more relevant reference: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/valuedate.asp |
In OCDS we have values in budget, tender, award, contract, transaction, and unit (which it itself used in the items of tender, awards, and contracts). For awards (and award items) and transactions, we have For budget, we do not have a date field, so there could be a use case for a value date, though I don't know enough about government budgeting to know if such details are commonly tracked. (I think it is not.) That leaves contract and contract items. The values of a contract can be modified during implementation, for which we will not have the updated date (we only have So, I think this leaves no use case for Value.date. As such, I'll close the issue, but I can re-open it if we find a use case. |
The unit of an amount is not only the currency, but also the date on which it was set, due to inflation. To be able to correctly sum values over longer periods of time, especially in contexts with high inflation, it is important to store the date on which the amount was set.
For the definition, we can see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_date
cc @duncandewhurst
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