Federal budget outlays, 1971-1980 [United States]
By: principal investigator, Thomas Anton
Series: ICPSR -- 8199; ICPSR (Series) -- 8199
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Government spending policy; Intergovernmental fiscal relations; Grants-in-aid; Appropriations and expenditures
Description: This collection contains expenditure data for the 150 largest United States Federal Government programs, which make up close to 90% of total federal spending. The source of information on federal funding activity is the Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds (GDFF) series, published annually from 1968-1980 by the Federal Information Exchange System, a component of the Community Services Administration (CSA). The files released here have been further processed by the Intergovernmental Fiscal Analysis Project (at The University of Michigan) and the Inter-university Consortium, as part of an effort to develop a comprehensive database for monitoring and analyzing the distribution of federal funding in the United States. The files differ not only by units of analysis, but also by what the variables measure. There are three kinds of variables: 1) dollar amount of program expenditures, 2) amount expended PER CAPITA, and 3) per cent of total federal funds on this program spent in this geographic area. The nine files that make up the present release are described in detail below. Program Records by State: Part 1. The unit is geographical--there are 66 states (including D.C.), census regions, and divisions as well as a national record.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class II.

Chronological coverage: 1971-1980.

United States.

The datasets are in OSIRIS format.

Part 1: 66 geographical units, logical record length of 13,214; Part 2: 66 geographical units, logical record length of 8,264; Part 3: 66 geographical units; Part 4: 726 cases, logical record length of 1,206; Part 5: 726 cases, logical record length of 766; Part 6: 726 cases; Part 7: 150 records, logical record length of 6,624; Part 8: 150 program records, logical record length of 4,446; Part 9: 150 program records, logical record length of 4,446.