***General Introduction*** Participatory budgeting voting data metadata The dataset contains structured data on voting for participatory budgeting projects in selected Ukrainian communities from 2017 through 2020. Author: Dmytro Khutkyy Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies ECePS ERA Chair in e-Governance and Digital Public Services University of Tartu, Estonia. Corresponding author: Dmytro Khutkyy Contact Information: dmytro.khutkyy@ut.ee Lossi 36-328, 51003 Tartu Estonia ***Methodological information*** Statistical data was collected from the State Statistics Service of Ukraine statistical yearbook. Participatory budgeting data was provided by EGAP (from the e-DEM online platform) and SocialBoost (from the Hromadskyi Project online platform). Tha data was structured by merging cases from all sources and assigning variables. The data was collected in the framework of the CIVICS project: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101038044 Comprehending Internet Voting Impact on Open Government: An International Comparative Study (CIVICS), grant No 101038044. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. ***Data specific information*** Variable names and definitions: Community name – name of a community. E-voting platform – online platforms used for e-voting in a community Year system – year, when a community joined an online platform. Year analysis – year, when data analysis was performed. PB e-vote duration – the duration of participatory budgeting in a community. Community type – type of a community. 2017 N population – population size of a community in 2017. 2018 N population – population size of a community in 2018. 2019 N population – population size of a community in 2019. 2020 N population – population size of a community in 2020. 2017 N voters – number of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community in 2017. 2018 N voters – number of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community in 2018. 2019 N voters – number of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community in 2019. 2020 N voters – number of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community in 2020. N voters increase – the ratio of the number of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community in 2020 and 2017. 2017 % voters – the percentage of the number of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community in 2017, of a community's population size in 2017. 2018 % voters – the percentage of the number of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community in 2017, of a community's population size in 2018. 2019 % voters – the percentage of the number of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community in 2017, of a community's population size in 2019. 2020 % voters – the percentage of the number of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community in 2017, of a community's population size in 2020. % voters increase – the ratio of the percentage of the number of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community in 2017, of a community's population size in 2020 and 2017. 2017 N e-voting – the number of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community via an online platform in 2017. 2018 N e-voting – the number of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community via an online platform in 2018. 2019 N e-voting – the number of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community via an online platform in 2019. 2020 N e-voting – the number of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community via an online platform in 2020. N e-voting increase – the ratio of the number of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community via an online platform in 2020 and 2017. 2017 % e-voting – the percentage of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community via an online platform of the total number of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community in 2017. 2018 % e-voting – the percentage of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community via an online platform of the total number of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community in 2018. 2019 % e-voting – the percentage of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community via an online platform of the total number of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community in 2019. 2020 % e-voting – the percentage of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community via an online platform of the total number of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community in 2020. % e-voting change 2018-20 – the ratio of the percentage of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community via an online platform of the total number of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community in 2020 and 2019. % e-voting change 2018-19 – the ratio of the percentage of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community via an online platform of the total number of persons who voted for participatory budgeting projects in a community in 2019 and 2018. *** Sharing and Access information*** The data is being made public in the spirit of open science. 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