Public Spending in the USA
Wednesday January 7, 2009 
compiled by Christopher Chantrill

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Download UK Public Spending Data Series 1692-2011

You can download any of the raw data series used to compile the public 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(CKPFI) Fire-protection services(GKPFI) Fire service(LKPFI) Fire-protection services(PCCFC) Fire Service College
195114.79301800
195216.02302000
195317.14702100
195418.14802200
195519.50502300
195620.96602500
195722.11102700
195823.0502800
195924.34703000
196025.97403300
196127.40403700
196228.69104200
196330.36604300
196433.16204900
196535.80205300
196638.09905800
196740.19106500
196843.5307100
196946.88307900
197051.52308000
197157.46908500
197264.342011100
197374.02012400
197483.793016100
1975105.864022600
1976125.203025700
1977145.663026900
1978167.905031800
1979197.438038500
1980230.8048000
1981253.154056100
1982277.198060600
1999911.9450000
2000958.9310001
20011003.2970001
20021055.7930004
20031118.2450002
20041184.2960004
20051233.9760000
20061303.9150001
20071381.5650001
200814050001
200914730002
201015500002
201116320002

 


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


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


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


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