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Data sources on federal and state investments in children and youth
There are a number of national data sources and publications that provide information on federal and state funding and expenditures for children’s services. Typically these publications analyze expenditures in a particular program area, such as education or child welfare. They can help state or local leaders who are interested in tracking investments in children’s services to get a handle on the overall landscape of funding sources, determine the level of federal and state expenditures in specific program areas and make state-to-state comparisons of federal and state expenditures on services for families.
Resources from The Finance Project
Finding Funding: A Guide to Federal Sources for Workforce Development Initiatives, by Nanette Relave, June 2005
Financing Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs: Federal Funding Sources and Other Strategies, by Dionne Dobbins, September 2004
Financing Transitional Jobs Programs: A Strategic Guide to Federal Funding Programs, by David Kass, June 2004
Guide To Federal Funding Sources For The Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative and Other Youth Initiatives, by Aracelis Gray and Carol Cohen, January 2004
Catalog and Guide to Federal Funding Sources for Professional Development in Education (2003--Update), by Casey Robinson, May 2003
Finding Funding: A Guide to Federal Sources for Out-of-School Time and Community School Initiatives, Revised and Updated, by Heather Clapp Padgette, January 2003
Catalog and Guide to Federal Funding Sources for Professional Development in Education, by Carol Cohen and Anya Freiman, The Finance Project, June 2001
Federal Funding For Early Childhood Supports and Services: A Guide to Sources and Strategies, by Carol Cohen, Margaret Flynn & Hansine Fisher, June 2000
Other Resources
GENERAL DATA SOURCES
United States Census
Office of Statistics, Government Division
Federal, State, and Local Government Finances
- State Government Finances: Provides a comprehensive summary of annual survey findings for state governments. The tables and data files present the details of revenue by type, expenditure by object and function, indebtedness by term, and assets by purpose and type.
- Consolidated Federal Funds Report (CFFR): The Consolidated Federal Funds Report (CFFR) covers all states, the District of Columbia, and US Outlying Areas. These data cover Federal expenditures or obligations for the following categories: grants, salaries and wages, procurement contracts, direct payments for individuals, other direct payments, direct loans, guaranteed or insured loans, and insurance. Dollar amounts reported represent either actual expenditures or obligations. The database can be searched by state, county, program, and agency.
- Federal Assistance Award Data System (FAADS): After the close of each quarter of the Federal fiscal year, the Federal Assistance Award Data System (FAADS) produces a file of standardized data records on all types of financial assistance awards made by Federal agencies to all types of recipients (including units of state and local government) during the indicated quarter. Each transaction record identifies, by the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) program code number and name, the type and amount of financial assistance, the type and location of the recipient and the geographic place of performance. Data is available at both the state and county levels and includes expenditure by function.
Office of Management and Budget
Issued by the Office of Management and Budget, the Budget of the United States Government is a collection of documents that contains the budget message of the President, information about the President's budget proposals for a given fiscal year, and other budgetary publications that have been issued throughout the fiscal year. Other related and supporting budget publications, such as the Economic Report of the President, are included, which may vary from year to year.
National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO)
The National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO) has served as the professional membership organization for state finance officers for over fifty years. NASBO makes a number of reports on state fiscal health and budgeting available to the public, including the semi-annual The Fiscal Survey of States, the annual State Expenditure Report, and the biennial Budget Processes in the States. Other reports present research and comparative analysis on topics such as capital budgeting.
The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government
Fiscal Studies Program
The Fiscal Studies Program produces reports on important developments in state finances - from tax collections to spending on education, health, and welfare programs.
- State Revenue Report: The program's ongoing short reports include the State Revenue Report, a quarterly analysis of trends in state tax revenue. This report is published shortly after the end of each calendar quarter.
- State Fiscal Briefs and News: The Fiscal Studies Program also publishes periodic analyses of trends in state and local government spending and taxes in the form of State Fiscal Briefs and News, which are released several times a year. Recent topics have included tax cut updates, overviews of education spending in state budgets, and surveys of the economic assumptions underlying state budgets.
EDUCATION DATA SOURCES
U.S. Department of Education
Grant Awards Database
The database contains information on U.S. Department of Education grant/cooperative-agreement awards since FY 2002. There are four ways to search for grant awards:
1.) Pick List Search – search award database according to priority data fields, such as zip code, CFDA number, state, or program name;
2.) Text Search – search for awards using a particular text string, such as zip code;
3.) Date Search – search for awards within an award date range; and
4.) Abstract Search – search the full text of the grant abstracts included in the database.
Department of Education Budget Tables
The Department of Education provides budget tables that list FY 2001 – 2006 allocations for all programs in the department by Program and by State. The tables are downloadable in PDF or Excel format.
Office of Special Education Programs, Data Analysis System (DANS)
This website provides public access to the most recent data about children with disabilities served under the IDEA. The data are collected annually by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs in accordance with Section 618 of IDEA. The data are provided in the form of tables produced for the Annual Reports to Congress. IDEA Part B funds services to children ages 3 – 21 and IDEA Part C funds services to children from birth – 2 years of age.
National Education Association (NEA)
NEA is the country’s largest professional association; with members working at every level of education. NEA publishes Rankings & Estimates (http://www.nea.org/edstats/images/05rankings.pdf)
annually, a report that provides state-level data and analysis on trends in education policy and spending
National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER)
The National Institute for Early Education Research supports early childhood education initiatives by providing objective, nonpartisan information based on research. The “2004 State Preschool Yearbook” is the second in a series of annual reports profiling state-funded prekindergarten programs in the United States. This 2004 Yearbook describes state-funded prekindergarten in the 2002-2003 school year. The report can be downloaded or state by state data is available on an online interactive map.
HEALTH DATA SOURCES
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is the federal agency responsible for administering the Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance), and other health-related programs. CMS offers researchers and other health care professionals a broad range of quantitative information on their programs, from estimates of future Medicare and Medicaid spending to enrollment, spending, and claims data. CMS also publishes “Health Care Financing Review”, (http://www.cms.hhs.gov/review/default.asp) a subscription journal that presents information and analyses on a broad range of health care financing and delivery issues. Individuals who subscribe to the journal also receive the “Health Care Financing Review” statistical supplement (http://www.cms.hhs.gov/review/supp/) annually, which shows health expenditures for the entire U.S. population, characteristics of the covered populations, use of services, and expenditures under specific programs
Kaiser Family Foundation
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation. The Foundation web site contains a wealth of data and analysis of Medicaid and SCHIP spending as well as state health policy and spending information.
- The Medicaid/SCHIP Spending & Budgets page provides analysis of Medicaid and Schip spending and policy, with particular attention to tracking variations and changes in state policy and spending. http://www.kff.org/medicaid/spending.cfm
- Kaiser’s state health facts web pages provide an interactive map with state by state data on health policy and spending, including state health costs and budgets.
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND INCOME SUPPORT DATA SOURCES
Administration for Children and Families
Office of Family Assistance
This site contains TANF financial data from 1997 through 2004. The Office of Family Assistance also publishes an Annual Report on TANF to Congress (http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/annualreport5/)
that reports on the status of caseloads, work participation rates, State expenditures, and other State policies.
U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
This site provides an interactive map with state by state, Program Year 2002 WIA data, as well as a national summary of the data.
Social Security Administration
Office of Policy
The Office of Policy is responsible for analysis and research on policy initiatives for the Social Security Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) programs and the Supplemental Security Income program. The Office of Policy places a high priority on analysis that provides policymakers with the information they need to understand the broad impact and distributional effects of reform proposals.
CHILD WELFARE DATA SOURCES
The Urban Institute
Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population
The child welfare research program at the Urban Insitute has tracked and produced a number of reports addressing state spending on child welfare services, including, most recently, The Cost of Protecting Vulnerable Children: How Child Welfare Funding Fared During the Recession (http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=411115). It documents the amount states spent on child welfare activities in state fiscal year (SFY) 2002, the funding sources they used, how funds were used, and how funding has shifted since federal welfare reform and passage of the Adoption and Safe Families Act.
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