Federal Funds Data, Fiscal Years 1999 Economic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture ****************************************************************************** Note: Data distributed with this product may include both published and unpublished statistics in the public domain. Distribution in this form does not imply U.S. Department of Agriculture approval of a particular data series or statistic, nor does the Department attest to their accuracy. Moreover, the Economic Research Service makes no warranty that data supplied in this form are either accurate transcriptions from source materials or appropriate for a particular user purpose. Questions concerning the use or interpretation of these data can be addressed to: Rick Reeder, e-mail:RReeder@ers.usda.gov Phone: 202-694-5360 Faqir Bagi, e-mail: fsbagi@ers.usda.gov Phone: 202-694-5337 Or contact the ERS Information Center4-5337 at: Phone: 202-694-5050 e-mail:service@ers.usda.gov The ERS Information Center is the principal point of contact to respond to customer questions regarding ERS products and services. The ERS Information Center operates Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., except Federal holidays. Staff answering the phones are trained to provide quality customer service. ****************************************************************************** The Federal Funds data consist of 1 year of data. This includes 3 raw data files in ASCII format, 1 compressed self extracting file for the county data, 4 SAS sample data extraction program files, and 4 text documentation files one for each raw files. The general documentation file is for fiscal year 1999. This file has the detail description of the data. 13 - Files: File 1. General Documentation for both fiscal years. (99doc.txt) File 2. The county file has individual counties as observations, sorted by the 5-digit FIPS State/county code. At the end of each State's county observations, there is a county unspecified observation in the form of ST999 (indicating amounts going to the State, with no county specified) where ST is the 2-digit State FIPS code. (Filename=Countfil99.exe*) File 3. SAS extraction program. (Filename=Countfil.sas) File 4. County documentation text file. (Filename=Countfil.txt) File 5. The county/program file has individual programs as observations, sorted by program ID-code at the end of file, aggregations by function/object combination form additional observations. (Filename=Cprogfil.dat) File 6. SAS extraction program. (Filename=Cprogfil.sas) File 7. County/program documentation text file. (Filename=Cprogfil.txt) File 8. The State file has individual States as observations, sorted by State two-digit FIPS code. At the end of the State file, there is an unspecified observation in the form of 99999. The 99999 is the U.S. unspecified. (Filename=Statefil.dat) File 9. SAS extraction program. (Filename=Statefil.sas) File 10. State documentation text file. (Filename=Statefil.txt) File 11. The State/program file has programs as observations, sorted by program ID. (Filename=Sprogfil.dat) File 12. SAS extraction program. (Filename=Sprogfil.sas) File 13. State/program documentation text file. (Filename=Sprogfil.txt) Documentation Files: Refer to the following for more information about the 13 files. Type of file 1. General documentation (99doc.txt) ASCII text file 2. County file (Countfil.exe*) Self extracting compressed file 3. County file (Countfil.sas) ASCII text file 4. County file (Countfil.txt) ASCII text file 5. County/program file (Cprogfil.dat) ASCII data file 6. County/program file (Cprogfil.sas) ASCII text file 7. County/program file (Cprogfil.txt) ASCII text file 8. State file (Statefil.dat) ASCII data file 9. State file (Statefil.sas) ASCII text file 10. State file (Statefil.txt) ASCII text file 11. State/program file (Sprogfil.dat) ASCII data file 12. State/program file (Sprogfil.sas) ASCII text file 13. State/program file (Sprogfil.txt) ASCII text file * Self extracting compressed files need to be downloaded and uncompressed before using. The principal data source is the Consolidated Federal Funds Reports (CFFR) from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Governments Division. ERS aggregated the data to the county, State, region, and national level and computed totals by function, object, and ERS county and State types. The 1999 data include 1,160 individual programs and 102 aggregations by function and object. Not all of the programs have reliable data at the county level. A disposition code is provided to indicate level of accuracy. ERS county and State typology codes are also included in the data. END_OF_FILE