Public Finance Data

1995 through 2005 Economic Reports of the President

The 1995 - 2005 Economic Reports of the President are available at this site (searchable versions are available from 1886-2005). This report contains a good deal of information on federal and state expenditures and receipts. Those interested in jumping directly to the data, may go directly to the Statistical Tables from the 2005 report.

1992-1994 Economic Reports of the President

Older issues of the Economic Report of the President are available at this gopher site.

Economics Statistics Briefing Room (White House)

This page provides quick access to current economic indicators provided by a variety of federal agencies.

Economagic: Economic Time Series Page

This page, provided by Ted Bos of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, contains an extensive list of direct links to economic time series data files. Search capabilities and excel spreadsheet files are also available at this site.

Federal Reserve Data

The Board of Governor's collection of Federal Reserve data.

Federal Reserve District Bank home pages

Links to each of the District Banks pages.

FRED II

This release of the Federal Reserve Economic Database, provides downloadable Excel files and provides a graphical display of each of the over data series.

Global Development Network Growth Database

This website contains international time-series data on macroeconomic factors, microeconomic factors, government finance, social indicators, and fixed factors (geographical information, region, legal origin, etc.).

Stat-USA (U.S. Dept. of Commerce)

A large collection of data and information. Subscribing individuals and institutions have access to more data.

Social Security data

This page, provided by the The Office of Policy, containstatistics and data related to the Social Security program.

State Government Finance, By State

This page, provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, contains information on state budgets.

The State of the Nation's Cities: A Comprehensive Database on American Cities and Suburbs

This study of 77 American cities and suburbs was conducted by the Center for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers University for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Over 3,000 variables have been included for each city, including information on AFDC, AIDS, demographic characteristics, homeless population, household and family income,poverty, pollution, and labor market conditions. The data may be downloaded in ASCII, SAS, EXCEL, or SPSS portable formats.

Tax Stats

This page, provided by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, contains a wide variety of downloadable files containing taxation statistics. Most of the data appears in either ascii or a spreadsheet format.