The U.S. Census Bureau distributes government finance data that some scholars have utilized, but the difficult process of collecting, interpreting, and organizing the data has led its adoption to be prohibitive and inconsistent. This study offers a single, coherent resource that contains all of the census data from 1967 through the most recent update, uses easy to understand natural-language variable names, and it will be extended when new data is available. Identical data is posted at: http://willamette.edu/mba/research-impact/public-datasets/index.html.
The six data sets are as follows:
- DS #1: County Data
- DS #2: Municipal Data
- DS #3: School District Data
- DS #4: Special District Data
- DS #5: State Data
- DS #6: Township Data
