Federal domestic outlays, 1983-1990 : a data book /

This compilation, the result of a National Science Foundation grant, reports the distribution of federal dollars by congressional district for fiscal years 1983 (the first year data in comparable form became available in the Federal Assistance Award Data System) through 1990. Two sets of tables present amounts by state for each congressional district for annual outlays for, respectively, 13 categories of recipients (e.g., local governments, private universities) and 12 functional policy categories (e.g., agriculture, health). Each set of tables is preceded by a chapter that graphs by category the trends in federal outlays for the same years for the US and major regions. Two appendixes match a list of Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance program titles in catalog number order to, respectively, the recipient and the functional policy categories. A concise introduction summarizes the history of federal data collection efforts for domestic expenditure, and highlights a few key peculiarities of the current database that must be kept in mind, such as the reporting of some state allocations as if to the county where the state capital is located. By conveniently bringing together comparable federal outlay figures for congressional districts for an eight-year period, this volume serves as a valuable supplement to the state and local data in the Census Bureau annuals Federal Expenditures by State and Consolidated Federal Funds Report, particularly in the present climate of fiscal retrenchment, when the issue of a fair share of government dollars in relation to the tax burden will be of concern to analysts and voters.-V. Jennings, Hofstra University