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CT Government Spending Charts
To VIEW DATA or DOWNLOAD DATA (also GDP) click here. To create your first chart, try the Chart Wizard. You can COPY or CUSTOMIZE the chart. down to table | down to data series
Use the controls below to CUSTOMIZE chart or CHANGE the data series
Hover mouse over dropdown controls for help. Remember, you can display a maximum of five
data series at once.
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| Spending Units: By default, government spending is displayed in billions of dollars. But using a dropdown control in the table heading you can select $ bln 2005, pct GDP, and more. Chart Title: You can create a title for your chart. Use the text field to enter a title and click the button to the right of the text field. US or State: By default, the chart shows overall United States government spending. But you can select spending for individual states by selecting the state dropdown control in the table heading. State, Local: By default, you can chart state spending or local spending by clicking a radio button in the selection table. But you can chart state-and-local combined by selecting state n local in the state/local dropdown control in the table heading. |
View: There are many ways to view the spending data. The default view is functional. There is a census view that conforms with the spending categories used by the US Census Bureau in its Statistical Abstract. There is a COFOG view that categorizes spending using the UN methodology. Line/Bar: By default, the data series are displayed as line charts. But you can also select a bar chart. Data Stack: By default, the data series are “stacked” when displayed on the chart. But you can change the setting to “un stack” the data series. Chart Size: By default, the chart is displayed at medium size. But you can use the dropdown control to change the size. Color: By default charts are displayed with color data lines and fill. You can change this to grayscale if you want. |
Data Range Start Year: You can select any start year you want using the dropdown control in the table heading. At the top and bottom of the dropdown only years ending in “0” are shown. Select a start year to get close, then select the start year you want. End Year: You can select any end year you want using the dropdown control in the table heading. At the top and bottom of the dropdown only years ending in “0” are shown. Select an end year to get close, then select the end year you want. |
| Category (max 5) | Sub-category | Fed | Gov. Xfer | State & Local | Total | ||
| Data Series: Select a spending series you want to chart from a dropdown on the left. If you select on the bottom dropdown you will add a data series (up to a maximum of five). The right-hand dropdown allows you to replace a data series with a more narrowly focused series. Click the “X” link to remove a data series from the chart. | X | ||||||
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| * If you add data series at same government level, this item will be shown as Remaining Spending. | |||||||
If you’d like to create your own custom chart of spending data you should use the table above to make your selections.
- Select the year range: Select the start year and the end year you want by selecting the years you want in the two year dropdown boxes.
- Select spending items: Just select the spending item you want from the dropdown control. Then click a radio button to select the level of government: federal, state, or local. If you select from the < select > you will add another data series to your chart. Up to 5 data series are allowed at once. Click the “X” link to remove a data series from the chart.
- Select units: You can select the display in billions of nominal (i.e. inflated) dollars, billions of real (i.e. year 2005) dollars, or as percent of GDP.
- Choose chart features: You can select the size of the chart, switch from bar chart to line chart, select color or black and white, stacked or not. You can also blow up the chart to fill the screen with the “fullsize” tab control above the chart display.
Download Data
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Download Data File
Click button to download CSV file of dataset in chart.
Download Tab-delimited Data
Copy and Paste: To copy and paste data into spreadsheet for analysis, 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.
View Data Series
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Below is a formatted version of the data displayed in the chart.
| Year | GDP-CT $ billion | Total Spending -statelocal pct GDP | |
| 1992 | 105.759 | 16.30 | a |
| 1993 | 107.68 | 16.90 | a |
| 1994 | 113.115 | 16.73 | a |
| 1995 | 123.212 | 15.82 | a |
| 1996 | 129.111 | 15.33 | a |
| 1997 | 137.691 | 14.72 | a |
| 1998 | 144.248 | 14.41 | a |
| 1999 | 150.025 | 14.84 | a |
| 2000 | 163.943 | 14.65 | a |
| 2001 | 168.407 | 15.36 | i |
| 2002 | 169.17 | 16.31 | a |
| 2003 | 174.295 | 17.01 | i |
| 2004 | 188.576 | 15.34 | a |
| 2005 | 197.055 | 15.04 | a |
| 2006 | 210.278 | 14.95 | a |
| 2007 | 222.498 | 14.71 | a |
| 2008 | 225.958 | 15.56 | a |
| 2009 | 227.55 | 16.46 | a |
| 2010 | 237.261 | 16.23 | e |
| 2011 | 246.489 | 15.66 | g |
| 2012 | 258.862 | 15.15 | g |
| 2013 | 274.499 | 14.92 | g |
| 2014 | 291.533 | 14.98 | g |
| 2015 | 308.389 | 15.19 | g |
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Sources
U.S. Federal Individual Income Tax Rates History, 1913-2011
US Federal Income tax rate Schedules
New FDSYS federal budget page
from US Government Printing Office
Combined Statement of Receipts, Outlays, and Balances of the United States Government FY 2010
Annual US Treasury Report on Spending and Revenue
US Government - Historical Debt Outstanding
US Treasury's measure of US National Debt
Measuring Worth - GDP Series for US and UK
includes GDP and chained GDP for US; GDP and chained GDP for UK
Gross Domestic Product by State
from Bureau of Economic Analysis
US Population Estimates from 1900
Census Bureau's annual population estimate from 1900 to 1999
2005 Census of Governments - Finance Technical Documentation
Contains Census Bureau spending and revenue codes
JpGraph Chart Library
Open source graph creating Library for PHP.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
historical editions of Census Bureau's publication. From 1878.
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Data Sources for 1992_2015:
Sources for 1992:
GDP: See State GDP Information
State: State and Local Gov. Finances
Sources for 2015:
GDP: See State GDP Information
State: State and Local Gov. Finances
> data sources for other years
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US GDP for 2011 Updated
Usgovernmentspending.com uses measuringworth.com as its GDP source because the data series for nominal and real GDP go back to 1790.
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