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2018 State & Local Government Finance Historical Datasets and Tables

Statistics on revenue, expenditure, debt, and assets (cash and security holdings) for US governments. There are statistics for the 50 state areas and the District of Columbia, as well as a national summary.

Please read the accompanying documentation for the individual unit file before using these data. It can be found in the .zip file below.

Public Use File - Data records by state and type of government for each item code (1 amount per record).

Individual Unit Files - Data records with government unit code, item code and amount for all respondents records in the annual sample.

Preliminary state government finance data was released earlier this year and can be viewed here.

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2018 State & Local Government Finance Historical Datasets and Tables
U.S. Census Bureau
10/08/2020
https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/2018/econ/local/public-use-dataset…

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