AUTHOR: Fiscal Future, Site Administrator
Dec 03, 2010

A user’s guide and supporting materials that give analysts the underlying data to use, update, and extend the quantitative long-term budget analyses conducted for the report Choosing the Nation’s Fiscal Future are now available. Much like our visual budget tool, this raw data can be used to graphically illustrate how budget decisions made now will affect future deficits and spending.

If you are planning on doing anything interesting with this data, please share it in the comments area below.

Among the datasets now available are:

Baseline estimation spreadsheet
Spreadsheet that estimates the study’s approximately 10- and 75-year budget baselines.

Baseline display spreadsheet
Paralleling the four spreadsheets below, this spreadsheet projects and displays the federal budget assuming that spending and revenues follow the baseline.

Spreadsheet for the “low” path
Projects and displays the study’s illustrative, sustainable path of “low” spending and revenues.

Spreadsheet for the “intermediate-1″ path
The first illustrative “intermediate” path.

Spreadsheet for the “intermediate-2″ path
The second illustrative “intermediate” path.

Spreadsheet for the “high” path
The study’s illustrative, sustainable path of “high” spending and revenues.

All the datasets, and the supporting guide can be downloaded here:
http://www.nap.edu/nff/