%increase over previous year

Nat'l Center for Science & Engineering Statistics, NSF

Office of Research, Evaluation, & Statistics, SSA

The increases from FY14 to FY15 for ERS and NASS are not real. The ERS and NASS budgets were restructured to have overhead costs reflected in its budget of, for ERS, $7.7 million starting in FY15. For NASS, it was $9.2M.

BLS received funds for its relocation to Suitland, MD in FY20, FY21, and FY22 which are not included in these tables in order to compare programmatic funding with prior year funding.

NCHS had a different budget structure pre-FY05 and so FY05 values are not directly comparable with FY03 and FY04 levels.

NCHS went through restructuring between FY14 and FY15 so that the jump of $15.4 million isn’t real. CDC had been covering overhead (e.g., rent) prior to FY15 but moved that and other expenses over in FY15.

ORES went through a budget restructuring such that FY08 and late budget levels aren't easily compared with earlier years.

ORES also went through a budget restructuring in FY19 when the Office of Retirement Policy (ORP) was merged into ORES. The FY18 ORP budget was $2.253M.

SOI went budget restructuring in FY12 so that the pre-FY12 levels aren’t comparable with FY12 and later.

The NCHS budget went through a budget restructuring such that $14 million that had been provided to NCHS through another fund has been incorporated into its budget. So, the FY21 budget now reads as $175.4 million, a $1 million increase over FY20.

Our source material for these figures are president's request documents from OMB and the parent agency, and final appropriations bills and language. For presi,dential request documents, we used the finalized figures that appear in the presidential request two years later. For example, the FY25 request has the finalized levels for FY23. In the instances where the parent agency presidential request materials didn't have the statistical agnecy levels, we relied on the OMB Analytical Perspectives. In sum, among these variious sources, we consulted scores of documents.

We thank Errol Schwartz for his many contributions to compiling the information on this page and on the preseidential request levels page and the Sloan Foundation for the support of Pierson, Schwartz, and Schwartz GMU Professor, Jonathan Auerbach.

*This table maintained by American Statistical Association Director of Science Policy Steve Pierson: pierson [at] amstat [dot] org

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