This vCalc data set contains government budget data as fiscal year agency [department] budget values published by the US government since 2010.  The budget values are shown by federal agencies (or departments), as they were listed in documents titled "Fiscal Year xxxx Budget of the U.S. Government"¹ .  References to these budget documents are shown in the See Budget Data Sources section below.

The budget numbers for each federal agency in this vCalc data set are derived from the summary tables included in the referenced budget documents.  These summary tables list overall spending authorizations for each department as Base Discretionary Funding by Agency.

The numbers are reported in millions of dollars.

The published budget reports show numerous total values for each federal agency given under the original report subheading of "Spending".  Examples of these totals are as follows:

• Total, Discretionary budget authority
• Total, Discretionary outlays
• Total, Mandatory outlays
• Total, Outlays

This vCalc data set uses the base discretionary funding values which are labeled as the "Total Discretionary budget authority" for each listed agency. This is the total of the funding the president's budget authorizes each agency to spend to support each agency mission.

Usage

Many of the world's citizens have almost no understanding of the size of their nations' budgets and even fewer have a loose-at-best understanding of how their governments spend their tax dollars.  Wouldn't you like to have a general knowledge of recent U.S. federal budget allocations to all the key federal agencies? vCalc uses this data set inside vCalc equations to provide some insights into how United States federal tax dollars are spent.

vCalc provides all registered users the ability to create vCalc equations, and these vCalc equations can be used to analyze data in any vCalc data sets.  As a starting point, we have provided some basic analysis equations to examine trends and changes in the U.S. budgets across the years since 2010 and also to easily view specific allocations of the United States Federal budget by agency and year.  See a list of these analysis equations listed under See Analysis Equations below.

We encourage you to create your own analysis equations to examine how your tax allocation is changing over time.  Note that it is a one-button-click operation to make a copy of this vCalc data set to which you can add your own additional data.  You can also make a copy of any vCalc equations which you can then modify yourself. Note also that data from vCalc data sets can be used directly inside vCalc equations.

Agency Choices

The choices of agencies for which budget data exists in this data set are:

• Department of Agriculture
• Department of Commerce
• Department of Defense
• Department of Education
• Department of Energy
• Department of Health and Human Services
• Department of Homeland Security
• Department of Housing and Urban Development
• Department of the Interior
• Department of Justice
• Department of Labor
• Department of State and Other International Programs
• Department of Transportation
• Department of the Treasury
• Department of Veterans Affairs,Corp of Engineers
• Environmental Protection Agency
• General Services Administration
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• National Science Foundation
• Small Business Administration
• Social Security Administration
• Corporation for National and Community Services
• Other Agencies
• Overseas Contingency Operations
• National Intelligence Community

Fiscal Year Choices

The choices of fiscal year provided in this equation are: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015

See Budget Data Sources

• Fiscal Year US Budget
• A New Era of Responsibility, Renewing America's Promise [Fiscal Year 2010]
• Fiscal Year 2011 Budget of the U.S. Government
• Fiscal Year 2012 Budget of the U.S. Government
• Fiscal Year 2013 Budget of the U.S. Government
• Fiscal Year 2014 Budget of the U.S. Government
• Fiscal Year 2015 Budget of the U.S. Government

See Analysis Equations

• US Fiscal Year Budget by Agency
• Min-Max-Avg Fiscal Year Budget by Agency
• Fiscal Year Budget Increase by Year and Agency
• Fiscal Year Budget Change by Agency
• Agency Percentage of Fiscal Year Federal Budget

1. ^ These government budget reports have been named "Fiscal Year xxxx Budget of the U.S. Government" since 2011