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Annual Survey of State Government Finances 1992-2016

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jacob Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania

Name	File Type	Size	Last Modified
government_finances_1992_2016.csv	text/csv	426.6 KB	03/11/2018 03:05:PM
government_finances_1992_2016.zip	application/zip	1.4 MB	03/11/2018 02:56:PM

Project Citation:

Kaplan, Jacob. Annual Survey of State Government Finances 1992-2016. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2018-03-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E101880V1

Project Description

Summary: The .csv file includes data from the years 1992-2016. No data was changed. Only column names were changed to standardize it across years. Some columns (e.g. Population) that are not in all years are removed. Amounts are in thousands of dollars.

The zip file includes all raw (completely untouched, see code for how I downloaded it) files for years 1992-2016.

From the Census, "The Annual Survey of State Government Finances provides a comprehensive summary of the annual survey findings for state governments, as well as data for individual states. The tables contain detail of revenue by source, expenditure by object and function, indebtedness by term, and assets by purpose." (link to this quote is below)

All code to download and clean the data is here. https://github.com/jacobkap/government_finances

Information from the U.S. Census about the data is here. https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/state/about.html

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: state government; government finance; government budget; federal budget

Geographic Coverage: State and national

Time Period(s): 1992 – 2016

Universe: State and national government

Data Type(s): administrative records data; census/enumeration data

Methodology

Response Rate: All states have data for all years. In a few years, some values (e.g. expenditure liquor stores) are missing. Overall, almost compete data.

Data Source: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/state/data/tables.All.html

Unit(s) of Observation: State and national government

Geographic Unit: State and national

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