Federal Funds Data, Fiscal Years 2001
Economic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture
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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: 
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			Phone: 202-694-5360
      Faqir Bagi, e-mail: fsbagi@ers.usda.gov
			Phone: 202-694-5337
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The Federal Funds data consist of 1 year of data. This includes 3 SAS data files,
1 Winzip SAS file for the county data, 4 SAS sample data extraction program files.
The general documentation file is for fiscal year 2001. This file has the detail
description of the data.

9 - Files:

File 1. General Documentation for both fiscal years. (01doc.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=Countfil.zip*)

File 3. SAS extraction program. (Filename=Countfil.sas)

File 4. 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.sas7bdat)
 
File 5. SAS extraction program. (Filename=Cprogfil.sas)

File 6. 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.sas7bdat)

File 7. SAS extraction program. (Filename=Statefil.sas)

File 8. The State/program file has programs as observations, sorted by program
ID. (Filename=Sprogfil.sas7bdat)

File 9. SAS extraction program. (Filename=Sprogfil.sas)

Documentation Files:
Refer to the following for more information about the 9 files.

                                                Type of file

1. General documentation (01doc.txt)            ASCII text file
2. County file (Countfil.zip*)                  Winzip compressed file
3. County file (Countfil.sas)                   ASCII text file
4. County/program file (Cprogfil.sas7bdat)      ASCII data file
5. County/program file (Cprogfil.sas)           ASCII text file
6. State file (Statefil.sas7bdat)               ASCII data file
7. State file (Statefil.sas)                    ASCII text file
8. State/program file (Sprogfil.sasbdat)        ASCII data file
9. State/program file (Sprogfil.sas)            ASCII text file

* Winzip was used to zip the file. You need to be downloaded and unzip before using.
The unziped filename is Countfil.sas7bdat.

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 2001
data include 1,206 individual programs and 108 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.


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