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Friday November 21, 2008 
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Download Government Spending Data Series 1902-2013

Warning: Under Construction!

You can download any of the raw data series used to compile the government spending data in usgovernmentspending.com. You select the data series you want and then copy-paste the tab delimited data from a textbox on this page into your spreadsheet.

Download Instructions:

Prepare a suite of data for download by making a selection from one of the dropdown menus below. You can select:

  1. A group of functionally related spending data series
  2. An individual spending data series
You can also remove individual data series that you don’t want.

Select Functional Data Series Group: Select a group of data series to download (you can add individual data series later):

Add Individual Data Series: Select Spending Data Series to add to download (you can add more later):

Change Data Units: You can download data in raw format (i.e., in the units used in the database for each item, or in $ billion, $ million, or percent of GDP.

raw
$ billion
$ million
percent GDP

Select Fiscal Year: You can select the budget for which you want to download estimated federal spending.

Copy and Paste: When you have created the dataset you want then just copy the tab-delimited text in the textbox below (click cursor in text box, then press ctrl-A then press ctrl-C) and paste it into your spreadsheet.

Here is a formatted version of the data you have selected.You can remove a data series by selecting “out” in the dropdown for each data series.

YearGDP(751) Federal law enforcement activities(E62) Current Operations - Police Protection(F62) Construction - Police Protection(FLE) Police(G62) Other Capital Outlay - Police Protection(SPO) Police
190224.20000050
190326.10000052
190425.80000055
190528.90000058
190630.90000061
1907340000064
190830.30000068
190932.20000072
191033.40000076
191134.30000080
191237.40000084
191339.10003089
191436.50004096
191538.700040105
191649.600050114
191759.700060124
191875.800070135
191978.300080147
192088.400090160
192173.6000110174
192273.4000140190
192385.4000150203
192487000160218
192590.6000170234
192697000180251
192795.5000200270
192897.4000210278
1929103.6000230288
193091.2000260307
193176.5000280307
193258.7000310318
193356.4000230304
193466.0000150291
193573.3000160302
193683.8000170314
193791.9000180336
193886.1000190359
193992.2000200362
1940101.4000210365
1941126.7000350299
1942161.9000500234
1943198.6000660324
1944219.8000830414
1945223.1000760446
1946222.3000700479
1947244.2000750561
1948269.2000800644
1949267.3000840710
1950293.8000880776
1951339.30001040857
1952358.30001410939
1953379.400012201038
1954380.400012401130
1955414.800012901229
1956437.500015601330
1957461.100015501468
1958467.200015901610
1959506.600017001710
1960526.400017301857
1961544.700019302107
1962567.626900002130
1963598.728800002231
1964640.430600002366
1965687.133300002549
1966752.935500002776
1967811.838900003049
1968866.640900003401
1969948.647000003901
19701012.257100004494
19711079.969300005228
19721178.384300005976
19731307.6102000006710
19741439.3112900007289
19751560.7142600008526
19761736.5160400009531
19771974.31772000010445
19782217.01944000011306
19792500.72109000012207
19802726.72357000013494
19813054.72582000014947
19823227.62667000016511
19833440.73033000017958
19843840.23356000019262
19854141.53675000020956
19864412.43764000022685
19874647.14272000024742
19885008.65235000026277
19895400.54889000028427
19905735.44840000030577
19915935.15872000032772
19926239.9668733934544398035010755950
19936575.5691234880177432487010962300
19946961.3687336998096447186011993390
19957325.8664639111349534557014086260
19967694.1732442272171768364016423660
19978182.4852844973031933504017122050
19988627.91042047889915856021017292750
19999125.31145950670136842234018541560
20009709.81212153990068905043019029600
200110057.91254256934385764920018849110
200210377.415408614742981172988018111090
200310808.615745645322341049953017792010
200411499.91913166997788985948017234160
200512237.919912717471351065966019136420
200613015.520039751028511082518019040580
200713667.519617786719041082518019275830
200814311.524926824105671082518019513980
200915027.028062863268991082518019755070
201015792.027603904293431082518019999140
201116580.227811947267451082518020246230
201217395.028330992283691082518020496370
201318243.3288571039439191082518020749600

 


Democratic Capitalism

Three dynamic and converging systems functioning as one: a democratic polity, an economy based on markets and incentives, and a moral-cultural system which is plural and, in the largest sense, liberal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism


Education

“We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
E. G. West, Education and the State


Government Expenditure

The Union publishes an exact return of the amount of its taxes; I can get copies of the budgets of the four and twenty component states; but who can tell me what the citizens spend in the administration of county and township?
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America


Mutual Aid

In 1911... at least nine million of the 12 million covered by national insurance were already members of voluntary sick pay schemes. A similar proportion were also eligible for medical care.
Green, Reinventing Civil Society