Statistical Resources on the Web
Federal/State/Foreign Government Finances

Statistical Universe (UMich Only)

• Indexes and abstracts federal government statistics since 1974; business, association and state government data since 1980, and international agencies since 1983
• Power Tables has full text of selected federal, state and international statistical compendia
• Abstracts is the entire data base and includes some links to full text or other web sites as well as references to the Documents Center's microfiche collection
• Delimiters include Boolean operators and numerous proximity indicators, frequency, and comparative data (by city, by foreign country, by age, by disease)
  • Sample Search: tax revenue! and by city
• About 15% of the abstracts link to full text
• For items not hot-linked:
  • Write down abstract number (e.g. ASI 1997 9391-7) and bring to the Documents Center for the microfiche version
  • Consult Statistical Universe Guide for various web searching alternatives and a Slide Show for further details

Congressional Budget Office

• Text of selected reports, beginning 1995, on the federal budget, budget issues (e.g. cost of army helicopters), and five-year economic projections
• Bibliography of printed publications not available on the web

Consolidated Federal Funds Report

• Interactive database of federal grants, contracts, and entitlements to states and counties, 1993+
• Alternative pdf version covers 1993+
• Downloadable data sets include local areas
• The titles of predecessors include Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds and Federal Outlays

Federal Budget

• Federal Budget FY 2009
  • Full text of budget and appendices in pdf format downloadable by chapter/agency
    • PDFs are digitally signed and require Acrobat 7.0 or 8.0
  • Also Historical Tables and Analytical Tables
  • Includes numerous spreadsheets in XLS format, among them Historical Tables and a state-by-state analysis

• Federal Budget FY 2008
  • Full text of budget and appendices in pdf format downloadable by chapter/agency
  • Also Historical Tables and Analytical Tables
  • Includes numerous spreadsheets in XLS format, among them Historical Tables and a state-by-state analysis

• Federal Budget FY 2007
  • Full text of budget and appendices in pdf format downloadable by chapter/agency
  • Also Historical Tables and Analytical Tables
  • Includes numerous spreadsheets in XLS format, among them Historical Tables and a state-by-state analysis

• Federal Budget FY 2006
  • Full text of budget and appendices in pdf format downloadable by chapter
  • Also Historical Tables and Analytical Tables

• Federal Budget FY 2005
  • Full text of budget and appendices in pdf format downloadable by chapter
  • Also Historical Tables and Analytical Tables
  • Alternate spreadsheets in WK4 and XLS formats

• Federal Budget FY 2004
  • Budget and appendix can be downloaded by chapter or in their entirety
  • Receipts and expenditures available in several spreadsheet formats
  • Historical Tables in one pdf file

• Federal Budget FY 2003
  • Federal Budget FY 2003
    • Full text of budget and appendices in pdf format downloadable by chapter
    • Also Historical Tables and Analytical Tables
    • Alternate spreadsheets in WK4 and XLS formats

  • President's Budget Briefing
    • Submitted on February 4, 2002
    • Includes broad outlines
    • Supplemented by recommendations on revenue sharing levels for each state covering such items as homeland security,jobs, education, environment, and social welfare

• Federal Budget FY2002
  • President Bush's budget submitted to Congress on February 28, 20 01
  • Blueprint for New Beginnings (pdf)
    • The President's initiative budget message includes text of message for a 10-year reform, tax cuts, and 4% increase
    • Tables include recommended funding for executive and independent agencies
    • Only item available on February 28, 2001; further publications should be printed by April 2001

• Federal Budget FY2001
  • President Clinton's recommended budget, presented February 7, 2000
  • Full text of the Budget and its Appendix, Historical Tables, Analytical Perspectives, Systems and Concepts
  • All sections searchable together or individually
  • Sample search: day ADJ care
  • Search results yield sections of the budget in text or pdf format
  • The budget may also be downloaded from another page in pdf format with some tables in spreadsheet format

• Federal Budget FY2000
  • Full text of the Budget and its Appendix, Budget Analyses, Historical Tables, Systems and Concepts, Principles, and Citizen's Guide
  • Keyword searching available for one or more publications
  • No browsing capability

• Federal Budget FY99
  • Full text of the Budget and its Appendix, Budget Analyses, Historical Tables, Systems and Concepts, Principles, and Citizen's Guide
  • Keyword searching available for one or more publications
  • Browsable interface

• Federal Budget FY98
  • Full text of the Budget and its Appendix, Budget Analyses, Historical Tables, Systems and Concepts, Principles, and Citizen's Guide
  • Browsable interface
  • For coverage of the balanced budget agreement, see Documents in the News, 1997

• Federal Budget FY97
  • Searchable text of the proposed budget submitted on February 5, 1996
  • Includes historical tables of budget expenditures in text or spreadsheet format
  • Detailed appendix of agency expenditures, analyses of special programs, and mid-year review of the budget

• Federal Budget, FY96
  • Federal Budget, FY 1996 (As proposed)
    • Browsable interface to text and statistical tables
  • Balanced Budget and Shutdown
    • Links to the various bills involved in the 1995/96 government shutdown and balanced budget attempts
    • Costs of the shutdown

• Congressional Budget Committees
  • Web sites provide analyses and opinions
  • House Budget Committee (Republicans)
    
  • House Budget Committee (Democrats)
  • Senate Budget Committee

• Final Congressional Appropriations
  • Current Status of Appropriations Bills (Library of Congress)
    • Chart by subject lists bill number, House and Senate committee and subcommittee approval, any reports as well as the conference report, and public law number
    • Handy access for current bills being considered
    • Appropriations Legislation (GPO Access)
      • Links to the full text of reports and appropriations laws beginning with FY97
      • Text and pdf formats
    • GPO Access links to similar information in list form

Government Finances (Census Bureau)

• Receipts and expenditures for the federal government, states, large cities and counties, and school districts
• Historic paper Government Finances through 1991/92
  • Consisted of individual paper reports for all governments, states, large counties, and large municipalities
  • Cataloged for the Graduate Library as HJ 257.A18
  • PDF Publications provides access to the 1991/92
• Beginning with 1992/93, zipped, comma-delimited files of the data appear on the Census Bureau's Government Estimates web site
  • The County Unit files for years ending in 2 and 7 provide state sales tax collections by county using code T09
• Government Finances beginning 1998 provides eye-legible receipts and expenditures for state, large county, and large municipal governments in one publication
  • Government Finances, 1997/98
  • Government Finances, 1998/99
  • Government Finances, 1999/2000
• The Census of Governments provides additional data for small areas in years ending in 2 and 7

Internal Revenue Statistics

• Numerous time series on federal tax collections from individuals, corporations, and partnerships
• Most data begins 1993 but selected tables date back to 1975
• Data must be downloaded into one of several different formats

Money

• Domestic and Foreign Coins Manufacturer by Mints of the United States, 1793-1980
  • Annual production by coin denomination and Bureau of the Mint office
  • Graduate Library Stacks HG 459 .A45 1981
• Annual Production Figures (Bureau of Engraving and Printing)
  • Production of $1-$100 bills by year, FY 1980-2004

National Debt

• U.S. National Debt Clock
  • Total federal debt updated daily plus per capita share
• Bureau of Public Debt
  • Daily listing of federal debt down to the penny
  • Total National Debt by Year, 1789+
• Federal Deficit
  • Annual list of surpluses or deficits as opposed to the cumulative federal debt figures
  • Historical Tables of the U.S. Budget, 2008 has annual deficits/surpluses since 1901 with cumulative data, 1789-1849 and 1850-1900
  • Updated since 1962 by the Congressional Budget Office
• National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform
  • Official report entitled Moment of Truthof the commission to reduce the national deficit, issued December 2010
  • Recommends combined approach on entitlements (Social Security, medical care), reduced spending, and tax reform to reduced the federal deficit
  • Chaired by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles

Outlays

• Public Budget Database (OMB)
  • Detailed spreadsheets of budget authority by agency and subagency since 1976, outlays since 1962, and receipts since 1962
  • There is no overall URL for the database but it can be located on the official OMB page for the federal budget each year

• Historical Tables of the Budget
  • Provides budget authority and outlays by agency, subagency, and function beginning in either 1940, 1962 or 1976
  • Also available in the Graduate Library with current year in the Documents Center: HJ 9 .U561

• Expect More
  • Rates government programs under the GW Bush administration for their effectiveness in relation to budget

Request v. Appropriation

• Congressional Quarterly Almanac (UMich Only)
  • Browse APPROPRIATIONS section; then choose year; then choose general field of appropriations (e.g. agriculture, foreign affairs, etc.)
  • Click on the link that says "sidebar" for a comparison of the President's request, House and Senate budget bills, and final appropriations
  • Procedure works at minimum back to 1970

Treasury Bulletin

• Federal fiscal data, public debt, savings bonds and notes
• General economic indicators
• Latest quarterly issue only
• Adobe Acrobat format

Bond Ratings

• Bond ratings for the largest cities and all states appear in the State and Local Government section of Statistical Abstract of the United States
• Standard and Poor's, Moody's, and Fitch
• The table numbers for the 2001 edition were 433 and 434

Consolidated Federal Funds Report

• Federal grants, contracts, and entitlements to states, counties, cities, and townships
• Covers 1986-96
• Data for cities and townships by type; data for counties and states also by subject
• Continued by the Census Bureau, 1993+

Census of Governments

• 1992 and 1997 Census in pdf format provides receipts and expenditures by type of individual state, county and municipal governments
• Employment for state and major local governments and the cost of employee benefits
• Taxable property values for local governments
• 2002 is in progress as of February 2005

Effective Property Tax Rates (National Association of Home Builders)

• State, county, and metropolitan area data calculated using the 2000 Census

Government Finances (Census Bureau)

• Receipts and expenditures for the federal government, states, large cities and counties, and school districts
• Historic paper Government Finances through 1991/92
  • Consisted of individual paper reports for all governments, states, large counties, and large municipalities
  • Cataloged for the Graduate Library as HJ 257.A18
  • PDF Publications provides access to the 1991/92
• Beginning with 1992/93, zipped, comma-delimited files of the data appear on the Census Bureau's Government Estimates web site
• Government Finances beginning 1998 provides eye-legible receipts and expenditures for state, large county, and large municipal governments in one publication
  • Government Finances, 1997/98
  • Government Finances, 1998/99
  • Government Finances, 1999/2000
• The Census of Governments provides additional data for small areas in years ending in 2 and 7

Local Government Salary Survey

• Survey conducted by the International City/County Management Association
• Arranged by 15 city government positions with the mean salary given for each state

Michigan Budget

• Budget proposals to the Legislature by program and department since FY 1997

National Priorities Project

• Lobby group on federal budget priorites
• Data on previous budgets and the impact of current budget proposals on state and local areas
• Subjects include jobs, education, hunger, health care, taxes, and children

Special District Governments

• Special District Governments, 2002 Census of Governments
  • Excel spreadsheet created from the Census Bureau's Public Use data files
  • Shows the names of special government districts (school, water, airport, transportation) by state and county
  • Use a filter in the Type of Government column and the Census Bureau's Type of Government Code to determine all the names of local water authorities or transit bureaus in the country
• Special Government Finances - 1997
  • Table 14 has the receipts and expenditures of individual special purpose governments such as water and airport authorities

State Tax Rates and Structure

• Current income, corporate, sales and excise tax rates for all states
• Numerous tables on state and local tax revenue
• From the Federation of State Tax Administrators

Balance of Payment Statistics (UMich Only)

• Create tables of country debits and credits by detailed type since 1998
• Use the BOP link at the upper righthand side of the screen to access the database from the more general IMF database

Government Finance Statistics (UMich Only)

• Receipts and expenditures of central governments by country since 1990
• Regional, state and local governments for many countries are provided in the aggregate
• Quick Guide to GFS CD-ROM

International Budget Project (Center for Budget Priorities)

• Numerous guidebooks and instructions on developing a government budget
• Subjects include health, military, poverty, tax and revenue issues
• Links to tutorials and guidebooks for developing a budget
• Many of the reports are in pdf format

World Tax Rates

• Table by country with corporate, personal, and value added tax rates

Grace York, Coordinator, Documents Center
University of Michigan Library
Ankur Mehta, Documents Assistant, May 2002
Graphics by Sherry Piontek and Barbara Perles
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