Government Finance Statistics, 1970-1997

These time series present annual (1970-1997) combined statistics on detailed revenues and expenditures for all levels of government. Topics covered include deficit/surplus or total financing, revenues or grants, expenditures, lending minus repayments, domestic financing, foreign financing, domestic debt or total debt, and foreign debt. Annual data are supplied for central government accounts and different levels of government in these categories: (1)central government budgetary accounts, (2)central government consolidated accounts, (3)central government extrabudgetary accounts, (4)central government Social Security Funds, (5) state or province governments, (6)local governments, and (7)general governments. The data as supplied from IMF are stored in packed zoned decimal format. The SSDC staff processed the packed format file with SAS PROC datasource and Access to create three ASCII delimited CSV files that users can import into the software of their choice.