Data notes · FY2027
About these budget records
This page explains how BetterMalolos collects and presents published national budget project lines associated with Bulacan Province and Malolos City.
Amounts reflect published figures in the 2027 National Expenditure Program (NEP) and House Bill 10858, not actual spending. A project found in only one version is a candidate for further review, not a conclusive finding.
Source and collection
The source of record is the BetterGov.ph Philippine Budget Data API, an independent, unofficial project. The portal uses its FY2027 overview and project datasets. Queries are collected into a local snapshot and shown only after source validation and review; the visitor's browser does not fetch the API directly.
- Overview:
GET /api/v1/hgab/2027for program and version names, documents, terms, notices, and disclaimers. - Office assignment:
GET /api/v1/hgab/2027/datasets/dpwh/projects?office=…. - Place-name search:
GET /api/v1/hgab/2027/datasets/{program}/projects?q=…. - Project detail:
GET /api/v1/hgab/2027/datasets/{program}/projects/{id}, including version amounts, source PDF pages, labels, and notes when supplied.
Lists are paginated. A complete collection must follow every page; a failed query prevents publication of a partial scope.
Geographic inclusion rules
Bulacan Province
Includes DPWH project rows assigned to exactly these published offices: Bulacan 1st District Engineering Office, Bulacan 2nd District Engineering Office, and Bulacan 3rd District Engineering Office. Project titles that merely mention Bulacan do not qualify on their own.
Malolos City
Includes the union of rows assigned to Bulacan 1st District Engineering Office and rows returned by title searches for “Malolos” in DPWH, FMR, HFEP, and NIA datasets. Dataset-qualified project IDs deduplicate overlaps; when a row matches both rules, both inclusion reasons are retained and shown.
The API does not provide a definitive city or municipality location for every project. The Bulacan 1st office serves multiple districts, so office assignment does not mean a project is physically in Malolos. Title search can miss relevant work or return namesakes and projects spanning other places. These views are scoped records, not complete geographic inventories. No manual exclusions are made without a documented reason.
At the source check on 2026-10-31, the three Bulacan office queries returned 152, 191, and 55 rows (398 total, with no duplicate IDs between offices). The separate Malolos rule uses the Bulacan 1st office query (152 rows) plus 27 DPWH title matches and no FMR, HFEP, or NIA matches. Nineteen IDs overlapped those two Malolos inputs, yielding 160 unique Malolos-scope rows. All configured API page totals matched the rows collected. Counts describe this source check; a later snapshot may differ.
Amounts, labels, and unknown values
Figures are in Philippine pesos at the API's stated scale. The comparison shows the 2027 NEP and House Bill 10858 using the API's latest House reading amount; the source also provides second- and third-reading figures and page links where available. A missing or null amount means no amount is stated for that version; it is never converted to zero. One-version-only rows are labeled as candidates for review. Match, reading, and status labels and notes are preserved as supplied by the source; they do not establish that a project was built, funded in final form, or spent.
The source release, query parameters, retrieval time, scope, currency/unit, and review status travel with each published snapshot. The page shows the snapshot retrieval and source release when reviewed data is available. A snapshot older than 180 days is marked stale under BetterMalolos display policy, not an API freshness guarantee.
Source notices and documents
The API identifies itself as independent and unofficial and says its data and interpretations are not endorsed by the Philippine government. It also cautions that project rows are not assigned to one district where an engineering office serves multiple districts. API notices and disclaimers are preserved with the reviewed data and displayed on the project page.
Separate from Malolos city finances
These BetterGov records describe national budget documents. They are not Malolos LGU appropriations or local fiscal reports. BetterMalolos presents local city budget and fiscal information separately on the City Budget & Transparency page.