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Xfer 		State Local Total   
 
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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.

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Copy and Paste: Here is the dataset you have just charted. The table also includes nominal or chained GDP for each year charted. If you’d like the data 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.

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Below is a formatted version of the dataset displayed in the chart. Included is a column of nominal or chained GDP for each year charted.

Overall Public Spending Chart
Fiscal Years 2008 to 2011
YearGDP
£ billion		Total Spending -total
£ billion
20081448.39579.21e
20091395.87614.22g
20101453.62647.08g
2011684.08g

Legend:
b - estimated outturn in HM Treasury 2008 budget
e - estimate in HM Treasury 2008 budget
g - 'guesstimated' projection by ukpublicspending.co.uk

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Data Sources for 2008_2011:

GDP: Measuring Worth - UK GDP
Spending: HM Treasury PESA

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Added Population Data

We have added UK population data to ukpublicspending.co.uk as follows:

  1. Population Estimates for 1901-1981.  From UK Parliament here.
  2. Population Estimates for 1981-2010.  From Office for National Statistics here.  Data from Region and Country Profiles - Population and Migration Tables - October 2011
  3. Country Population Projection through 2020. From Office for National Statistics here.  Data from Table 1.2 Actual and projected population of the UK by constituent country, 1971-2058
  4. Regional Population Projection through 2020. From Office for National Statistics here. Data from Table 1: England and GORs (Government Office Regions)

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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

 

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