## Materials and Methods
### Model Definition: Thresholds and Interactions
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c} \hline \hline
**Policy ID** & **Policy Name** & **SDG Alignment** \\ \hline
334 & Cultural Promotion & 8, 11 \\
336 & Protection and management of historical and artistic heritage & 8, 11 \\
337 & Leisure facilities & 8, 11 \\
338 & Popular festivities and celebrations & 8, 11 \\
340 & General Administration of Sport & 3 \\
341 & Promotion of Sporttive activities & 3 \\
342 & Sports Facilities & 11 \\
410 & General Administration of Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries & 2, 8, 12 \\
412 & Improvement of agricultural structures and production systems & 2, 8, 12 \\
414 & Rural Development & 2, 8, 15 \\
415 & Protection and development of fishery resources & 8, 12 \\
419 & Other actions in agriculture, livestock and fisheries & 2, 8 \\
420 & General Administration of Industry and Energy & 8, 9 \\
422 & Industry & 9 \\
423 & Mining & 9 \\
425 & Energy & 7, 9 \\  & General Administration of Trade, Tourism and Small and Medium & \\
430 & Enterprises & 8 \\
431 & Trade & 8 \\
432 & Tourist information and promotion & 8 \\
433 & Business Development & 8 \\
439 & Other sectorial activities & 8 \\
440 & General Administration of Transport & 3, 8, 11 \\
441 & Passenger transportation & 3, 8, 11 \\
442 & Transport Infrastructures & 3, 8, 11 \\
443 & Transportation of goods & 3, 8, 11 \\
450 & General Administration of Infrastructures & 9 * \\
452 & Hydraulic Resources & 9 * \\
453 & Roads & 9 * \\
454 & Local roads & 11, 9 * \\
459 & Other infrastructures & 9 * \\
462 & Research and studies related to public services & 4, 8, 9 \\
463 & Scientific, technical and applied research & 4, 8, 9 \\
491 & Information Society & 9 \\
492 & Knowledge Management & 9 \\
493 & Consumer and user protection & 9, 12 \\
912 & Governing bodies & 16 \\
920 & General Administration & 1,17 \\
922 & Coordination and institutional organization of local entities & 1,17 \\
923 & Basic Information and Statistics & 1,17 \\
924 & Citizen Participation & 1,17 \\
925 & Attention to citizens & 1,17 \\
926 & Internal Communications & 1,17 \\  & Contingencies, transitional situations and implementation & \\
929 & contingencies & 1,17 \\
931 & Economic and tax policy & 16 \\
932 & Management of the tax system & 16 \\
933 & Heritage management & 16 \\
934 & Debt and cash management & 16 \\
941 & Transfers to Autonomous Communities & 16, 17 * \\
942 & Transfers to Local Territorial Entities & 16, 17 * \\
943 & Transfers to other Local Entities & 16, 17 * \\
944 & Transfer to the State Administration & 16, 17 * \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
\end{table} 
Table 1: _Cont._collected were treated in different ways. Firstly, to observe the effect and synergies directly influenced by public budgets we used the 2016 budgetary variables to correlate with the 2018 sustainable development situation, assuming a time lag of 2 years, where the effects of different budgetary policies would presumably be perceived. Likewise, 2018 budget data were used for the correlation with 2020 sustainable development report. The final goal of this analysis was to find out the interaction between budget variations and the differences in the Sustainable Development situation that exist; that is, how an increase in a budget item influences the change in its linked SDGs (positively or negatively).