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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(753) Federal correctional activities(E04) Current Operations - Correctional Institutions(E05) Current Operations - Corrections - Other(F04) Construction - Correctional Institutions(F05) Construction - Corrections - Other(G04) Other Capital Outlay - Correctional Institutions
(G05) Other Capital Outlay - Corrections - Other
1962567.64900000
0
1963598.75300000
0
1964640.45300000
0
1965687.15700000
0
1966752.95500000
0
1967811.85800000
0
1968866.66300000
0
1969948.66500000
0
19701012.27900000
0
19711079.99400000
0
19721178.311500000
0
19731307.614000000
0
19741439.317900000
0
19751560.720000000
0
19761736.520800000
0
19771974.324000000
0
19782217.030700000
0
19792500.733700000
0
19802726.734200000
0
19813054.736100000
0
19823227.636400000
0
19833440.741800000
0
19843840.249400000
0
19854141.553700000
0
19864412.461400000
0
19874647.171100000
0
19885008.693000000
0
19895400.5104400000
0
19905735.4129100000
0
19915935.1160000000
0
19926239.92114132902021158387718133931634986243990
206898
19936575.52124142397101218682414798711208053246300
206531
19946961.32315157761741320007116957181098405270045
229932
19957325.82749176748841435942120806781113231339814
288826
19967694.1301319035102153821071524590998331333543
236428
19978182.4293920614214164581721336567918350338233
280924
19988627.92682215339911737927915139671176241555955
319188
19999125.33204230142671877706917550251278754474282
298668
20009709.83707246424992038668417616331331211354473
328939
200110057.94206272995132164073115742451251138323817
280768
200210377.44748277972702347011013671751402384278366
299931
200310808.65384287641172391226811137751099458272113
309567
200411499.955092891419225092195913748961588270740
368831
200512237.9586245552027107695981847572170605638921
172077
200613015.5615849562410107811091633994128627761018
152495
200713667.5632858313813107811092179774190435904418
152495
200814311.56229659135161078110923683691904351074838
152495
200915027.07082745036441078110925732821904351277372
152495
201015792.06902842132741078110927959241904351518069
152495
201116580.26698951883041078110930378301904351804121
152495
201217395.066321075936461078110933006651904352144074
152495
201318243.365581216157041078110935862411904352548084
152495

 


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


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


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


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