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RESEARCH ARTICLEThe Government Finance Database ACommon.docxrgladys1
RESEARCH ARTICLE
The Government Finance Database: A
Common Resource for Quantitative Research
in Public Financial Analysis
Kawika Pierson*, Michael L. Hand, Fred Thompson
Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Center for Governance and Public Policy Research, Willamette
University, Salem, Oregon, United States of America
* [email protected]
Abstract
Quantitative public financial management research focused on local governments is limited
by the absence of a common database for empirical analysis. While the U.S. Census
Bureau distributes government finance data that some scholars have utilized, the arduous
process of collecting, interpreting, and organizing the data has led its adoption to be prohibi-
tive and inconsistent. In this article we offer a single, coherent resource that contains all of
the government financial data from 1967-2012, uses easy to understand natural-language
variable names, and will be extended when new data is available.
Introduction
Widely shared and easy to use databases facilitate quantitative research and render the replica-
tion of findings practical and convenient [1]. Indeed, much of what we know about public
finance has been tested against large microdata sets–in the United States, primarily merged
information files based on household-level data from the IRS Individual Public-Use Tax Files,
the Current Population Survey, the Consumer Expenditure Survey, and the triennial Survey of
Consumer Finances. Unfortunately, students of public financial management at the local gov-
ernment level must often rely on one-off, custom-built datasets to pursue their inquiries, which
is costly, inimical to replication, and leaves practitioners uncertain about the utility of academic
insights.
For someone from outside the field of public financial management the lack of widely used
and consistently applied data might seem an unlikely obstacle. After all, scholars of public
financial management have access to a database that is in many respects ideally suited to their
needs. The U.S. Census Bureau has surveyed state and local governments annually since 1967,
and, as the Director of the U.S. Census Bureau stated in a letter accompanying the 2013 request
for financial information: “This survey is the only comprehensive source of information on the
finances of local governments in the United States.”
Many examples of research using these data exist, including recent papers by Gore [2],
Baber and Gore [3], Kido et al. [4], Murray et al. [5], Carroll [6], Mullins [7], and Fisher and
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Citation: Pierson K, Hand ML, Thompson F (2015)
The Government Finance Database: A Common
Resource for Quantitative Research in Public
Financial Analysis. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0130119.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0130119
Editor: Frank Emmert-Streib, Queen's University
Belfast, UNITED KINGDOM
Received: November 23, 2014
Accepted: May 17, 2015
Published: June 24, 2015
C.
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Over the past two and a half years, Federal agencies have done a great deal to make government more transparent and more accessible, to provide people with information that they can use in their daily lives, to solicit public participation in government decision-making, and to collaborate with all sectors of the economy on new and innovative solutions. These Open Government efforts are now entering a new phase, as we collaborate with other countries in the global Open Government Partnership (OGP).
President Obama has emphasized three independent reasons to support Open Government:
1.Open Government promotes accountability, which can improve performance. In the words of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis: “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.”
2. Transparency enables people to find information that they “can readily find and use.” For this reason, the President has asked agencies to “harness new technologies” and “solicit public feedback to identify information of greatest use to the public.”
3. In many domains, government should develop policies, rules, and plans with close reference to the knowledge, expertise, and perspectives of diverse members of the public. As the President has said, “[k]nowledge is widely dispersed in society, and public officials benefit from having access to that dispersed knowledge” and hence to “collective expertise and wisdom.”
As it developed a U.S. National Action Plan (“National Plan”), the Federal Government engaged in extensive consultations with external stakeholders, including a broad range of civil society groups and members of the private sector. It solicited input from the Administration’s own Open Government Working Group, comprised of senior-level representatives from executive branch departments and agencies. White House policymakers also engaged the public via a series of blog posts, requesting ideas about how to focus Open Government efforts on increasing public integrity, more effectively managing public resources, and improving public services. Responsive submissions were posted online.
This National Plan builds on, but does not replace, the Open Government Initiative inaugurated by the President’s Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government. The National Plan will briefly highlight what has been accomplished thus far and lay out some of our goals and plans for the future.
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to improve government services and promote private sector innovation. This legislation seeks to
achieve these goals by creating an expectation that – by default – government data will be open and
available whenever possible. Specifically, this bill defines open data without locking in yesterday’s
technology; creates standards for making federal government data available to the public; requires the
federal government to use open data to improve decision making; and ensures accountability by
requiring oversight during key periods of implementation.
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1. Financial Transparency – Balancing
the Books
When you think about who
knows what and about whom
in our society it is hard to
ignore the increasing
information asymmetry.
Suelette Dreyfuss talks about
this emerging asymmetry in
her presentation to a recent
conference on transparency &
open government at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4mswTqp
xUQ&feature=youtu.be
According to Dreyfuss
“Big Data makes government
very powerful in its
relationship with the citizen.
This is even more so with the
rise of intelligent systems,
software that increasingly
trawls, matches and analyses
that Big Data. And it is moving
toward making more decisions
once made by human beings.”
2. When I began BudgetAus 3 years
ago almost no budget information
was actually available for re-use. I
had to copy-paste 2.5 thousand
rows of data from the 20 different
portfolios to create my first
data-set of the federal budget.
My efforts were recognised in the
mainstream media and also
internationally when the federal
budget data was published in
machine readable formats for the
first time in 2014.
3. The government historically provides very little in the
way of accessible, objective information on it’s
spending. Until the 2014 budget, government
spending had been published in around 20 PDF or
Word Doc files (one for each portfolio).
This type of publication did not allow for searching or
totaling across all the portfolios. This is what I built
BudgetAus to do.
What are the sources of data on
government spending?
4. Other sources of government spending data are the
Commonwealth tenders data which has been online
for some time however this information has never
been analysed for purposes of political transparency.
Commonwealth government grant data is only
coming online in a comprehensive way now and there
are still data sets missing or incomplete.
5. OpenAus uses budget data,
grants and tenders data to
give Australians a window
into government spending.
The existence of this
transparency project also
highlights missing data sets
and works to improve
transparency.
BUDGET DATA
GRANTS
TENDERS
AGENCY
ADMIN
6. BudgetAus contains top down spending data published on
budget night and allows users to find & total spending by
search terms across the entire budget.
Users can see distribution between portfolios & display
cuts & increases at program level by entering a search
term.
BudgetAus also includes data from the Register of
Organisations which includes agency history & the
government’s plans for it’s future.
7.
8. Bottom up spending data is published as grants and
tenders on various timetables which depend on how often
each agency makes grants.
Tenders for all Commonwealth agencies are reported
weekly in one export file at AusTenders.
Grants data is published less frequently depending on
funding rounds & is not yet available in a central location
other than OpenAus. Coverage is not yet total. Some key
agencies do not report their grants data according to
specification.
Bottom-up Spending Data
9. The government estimates grants form around 6% of
the budget but freely admits that the lack of central
reporting makes keeping track of the total difficult.
To remedy this, the Public Management Review
Agenda, which came out of the Audit Commission
proposed a new site to come into effect in 2016 to
provide whole-of-government reporting of grant
recipients similar to AusTenders (Commonwealth
Procurement reporting website).
Commonwealth Grants Reporting
10. With tenders & grants data now published in re-
usable formats I am able to calculate totals across
grants and tenders and make this searchable by
postcode, name, federal electorate, LGA & search
term.
Because grants data is only coming online now, the
top level searches give results only for last & current
financial year.
OpenAus
11.
12. Commonwealth tenders make up about 10-15% of the
annual federal budget.
Tenders data follows a different specification from
grants data and does not include the government
program under which the contract is administered so
can’t be totaled by program.
Commonwealth Tenders
13. Every week between 1000-2,500+ new tender
contracts are published. You can find new tender
contracts on the Tenders homepage.
A map provides an easy way to identify individual
locations receiving contracts in the past week.
Latest weekly contracts are also divided into
electorates & parties so users can track where the
money is going in a political sense.
Tenders data
15. You can also search tenders by several criteria and get
totals by government going back 25 years with
average spend and number of contracts by
government.
Each search also provides an overview of the data by
distinct name, ABN, postcode, electorate etc for that
search criteria.
Eg search term ‘health’ may contain 655 distinct
postcodes, 138 electorates & 1,899 distinct ABN’s.
16.
17. Tenders data is available in CSV download free for
data sets under 500 rows and at .001c per row for
data sets over 500 rows.
Overview information for results on postcode also
include SEIFA scores & locality information.
SEIFA is a measure of inequality by area calculated by
the Australian Bureau of Statistics based on Census
data.
18. OpenAus attempts to redress the information imbalance
between what organisations know about individual
spending and what individuals know about government
spending and who they are giving tax dollars to.
OpenAus is a world class tool in political & financial
transparency.
“I’ve worked with Rosie Williams on budget data transparency since
November 2013. Rosie has developed her OpenAus data project into the
best government data transparency initiative I know. OpenAus has been
continually updated and improved to make underlying data intelligible and
to focus on key aspects for analysis…
19. …My interest has particularly been on the transparency of federal budget data.
BudgetAus is the best ongoing facility for reviewing and analysing spending data,
especially by programme.Rosie’s efforts have added significantly to the
transparency of federal budget data. She has also become an important member of
the non-government community who are trying to enable better and more
informed use government data.”
Garry Brooke Director, Appropriations Management Team,
Department of Finance, 2003-2010.
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