State and Local Government [United States]: Sources and Uses of Funds, State Financial Statistics, 1933-1937 (ICPSR 6306)

Principal Investigator(s): Sylla, Richard E.; Legler, John B.; Wallis, John

Summary: This data collection contains financial data on state government revenues and expenditures for 16 states during 1933-1937. There are separate files for different levels of aggregation: (1) revenue and expenditure aggregates (1-digit codes), (2) revenues and expenditures classified by major 20th-century categories (2-digit codes), (3) revenues and expenditures classified by minor categories that correspond to special features of 19th- and/or 20th-century governments (3-digit codes),... (more info)

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Sylla, Richard E., John B. Legler, and John Wallis. STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT [UNITED STATES]: SOURCES AND USES OF FUNDS, STATE FINANCIAL STATISTICS, 1933-1937. New York, NY: Richard E. Sylla, New York University/Athens, GA: John B. Legler, University of Georgia/College Park, MD: John Wallis, University of Maryland [producers], 1993. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1995. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06306.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06306.v1

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• National Science Foundation (SES-8419857, SES-8706814, SES-8908272, and SEB-9108618)

Summary:   This data collection contains financial data on state government revenues and expenditures for 16 states during 1933-1937. There are separate files for different levels of aggregation: (1) revenue and expenditure aggregates (1-digit codes), (2) revenues and expenditures classified by major 20th-century categories (2-digit codes), (3) revenues and expenditures classified by minor categories that correspond to special features of 19th- and/or 20th-century governments (3-digit codes), and (4) revenues and expenditures classified by idiosyncratic categories which differ from state to state (4-digit categories). Parts 1 through 4 contain expenditure data. Parts 5 through 8 comprise revenue data. Part 9 contains codes for the categories of expenditures and revenues.

Time Period:  

• 1933--1937

Date of Collection:  

• 1993

Universe:   Financial records of 16 states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Illinois, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia, and Vermont.

Data Types:   administrative records data

Data Collection Notes:

(1) The data files use commas and quote marks to delimit variables. (2) See also SOURCES AND USES OF FUNDS IN STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, 1790-1915: [UNITED STATES] (ICPSR 9728).

Data Source:

records of state governments, primarily treasurer's reports, auditor's reports, and comptroller's reports

Original ICPSR Release:  1995-03-16

Version History:

• 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 10 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

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