The Fiscal Research Center maintains a variety of data sets that are used by our research associates, affiliated faculty and graduate students. This data may be of interest to students, faculty, policymakers and external organizations. Below is a list of the data sets maintained by the FRC, as well as information about confidentiality and accessibility.
Please contact Lakshmi Pandey at [email protected] with further questions about access to these data sets.
About: FRC has the available summary tables and public-use microdata (PUMS) of the centennial census (1990, 2000 and 2010, 2020) for all states. We also have annual data from the American Community Survey from 2007 to present, and the Tiger data files for 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2020 data sets, which allow geocoding of Census data. The FRC has also purchased data from GeoLytics, which recodes data from the 1980 census to year 2000 census boundaries to allow geographic comparisons over time.
Access: This is a public-access data set in part purchased and in part assembled by the FRC. Andrew Young School students, faculty or external organizations wishing to use this data can make a request for access from Lakshmi Pandey. Please know that the FRC reserves the right to charge a nominal fee for external access as a way to defray the costs of data purchase, assembly and maintenance.
About: The Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) program consists of two surveys, the Quarterly Interview Survey and the Diary Survey, that provide information on the buying habits of American consumers, including data on their expenditures, income and consumer unit (families and single consumers) characteristics. The survey data are collected for the Bureau of Labor Statistics by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The CE is the only federal survey to provide information on the complete range of consumers’ expenditures and incomes, as well as the characteristics of those consumers.
It is used by policymakers examining the impact of policy changes on economic groups, the Census Bureau as the source of thresholds for the Supplemental Poverty Measure, businesses and academic researchers studying consumers’ spending habits and trends, and other federal agencies. Perhaps most importantly, the CE is used to regularly revise the Consumer Price Index market basket of goods and services and their relative importance.
Access: This is public-use data, and FRC has the latest public-use micro data in SAS format.
About: This is a quarterly data set from Georgia Department Labor. Employment and Wage ES-202 (also referred to as Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, QCEW) data are derived from reports filed by all employers subject to state and federal unemployment compensation laws. Industry employment and payroll information is produced quarterly. Employment and wage data are available from first quarter of 1977 through the most recently available.
The data has industry classification codes SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) through 2003 and NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) codes after 2003. Typical variables are employer ID; federal, state or private employers; employment in each month of a quarter; and total wages paid against those employees in a quarter. It also has the physical location of establishments, and two thirds of these addresses can be geocoded in a given quarter. More recently, the data has included latitude and longitude of the establishment location.
Individual Wages data has just three variables: worker’s social security number, employer ID (as in the ES-202) file and quarterly wages received by that person from that employer. We have this data starting from second quarter of 1986 through the most recently available.
Access: Detailed access is limited to approved FRC staff and the data is housed on a standalone, secured workstation. Selected aggregate extracts (not individual employer of individual person records) can be provided upon request, after approval by GADOL.
Interested persons should email to [email protected] with his or her information, as well as a brief paragraph about the proposed project for which this data will be used. An extraction free applies to non-FRC staff/affiliated faculty.
Snapshot: The following is a chart of yearly average number of jobs from ES-202 and number of people (unique personal ID) having jobs in Georgia from the Individual Wages data.
About: The FRC has purchased a data set of federal fund awards by 30 federal agencies. These agencies are responsible for virtually all financial assistance awards to non-federal government entities, including private and non-profit organizations and, in aggregate, to individuals. Awards include grants (such as wastewater treatment grants), direct payments (such as Social Security payments), loans (such as small business and student loans) and insurance commitments (such as for crops and home mortgages).
Exclusions include international transactions, federal wages and salaries, and goods or services purchased for federal government use. Fields include award recipients, assisted projects and financing. Data for recipients include name and geographic location. Data for projects include assistance program name, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number and purpose, and data for financing include amounts of federal and non-federal funding. Most data are presented by type of recipient (such as governments, private organizations and individuals) and summarized by recipient location (such as state or county area).
Access: This is a public-access data set purchased by the FRC. Andrew Young School students, faculty or external organizations wishing to use this data can make a request for access from Lakshmi Pandey. Please know that the FRC reserves the right to charge a nominal fee for external access as a way to defray the costs of data purchase and maintenance.
About:The Federal Funds Information for the States (FFIS) provides information on federal grants to the states organized by subject category from 1998 to current. The data set focuses on grant-in-aid to state governments but is much cleaner than FAADS or CFFR data. FFIS also provides regular updates on federal funding policies that affect these grant-in-aid programs for the states.
Access: FFIS is a proprietary data service purchased by the Fiscal Research Center. Pursuant to our agreement with FFIS, the data is available only to Andrew Young School students and faculty upon request. However, other state agencies or state employees may be able to access this data through a State of Georgia contract with FFIS.
About: The FRC has collected and organized the Georgia Department of Education DE46 data revenue and expenditure files. The revenue files include disaggregated Georgia school district revenue amounts by fund code, revenue source and educational program. The corresponding expenditure files provide disaggregated expenditure amounts by fund code, function, object purchased and educational program. Academic years 2001-13 are available. These data allow for the isolation of specific Georgia district revenues and expenditures and for the aggregation of revenue or expenditure categories defined by the user.
Access: This is a public-access data set assembled by the FRC. Andrew Young School students, faculty or external organizations wishing to use this data can make a request for access from Lakshmi Pandey. Please know that the FRC reserves the right to charge a nominal fee for external access as a way to defray the costs of data purchase and maintenance.
About: FRC has C and S CORP data from 2005 through the most recently available. Variables in this data set follow Georgia corporate tax return form 600. Individual income tax data is from 1995 to 2011 (latest complete year) and variables follow Georgia individual tax return form 500. Individual IDs—and spouse IDs in the case of filing jointly—are encrypted, but the same encryption method is used for different years of data.
Access: For confidentiality reasons, access is limited to approved FRC staff; however, extracts such as aggregated graphs and tables are available upon request. More detailed extracts with encrypted IDs must receive approval through the Department of Revenue.
About: The Georgia Property Tax Database provides unique information about state and local property tax data as it affects individuals. Until now, the only data available has been that from the Georgia Tax Digest. The digest provides aggregate data on property tax revenues, the number of assessed properties, and aggregate assessed values by jurisdiction. Default millage rates are also available from 1990.
However, those data provide only a partial picture of the property tax landscape in Georgia. In particular, they do not provide data on the variability in homestead exemptions across local jurisdictions, nor do they provide data on such exemptions as they vary within a jurisdiction by individual characteristics, including age, disability status, veteran status and income.
This unique data set provides these data for the state and for local jurisdictions from 1938 through the most recently available. In practice, it covers an even longer period, as we verified that there were no state or included local exemptions before 1938, at least back to 1913. Merged with data on millage rates, these data allow one to simulate how much property tax an individual household of a given demographic category would pay in property taxes in a given jurisdiction in a given year in a property with a specified assessed value (assuming the household takes advantage of all exemptions available).
We have this data in STATA and SAS format. Download the brief description and data dictionary.
Access: Fiscal Research Center staff have access to the data. Others should make a request with a brief description of what the data will be used for. Interested persons should send an email request to [email protected].
About: Using classic input-output analysis in combination with regionally specific Social Accounting Matrices and Multiplier Models, IMPLAN (IMpact analysis for PLANning) provides a model examining economic interconnections between industries. An example of its use would be to estimate the “multiplier” effects of different public policies. FRC has the latest data for these states: Alabama, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Florida and Georgia. The FRC also has data for all the counties in Georgia.
Access: This is a proprietary data model purchased by the FRC, and it is installed on a computer that requires authentication to use the data. Because of the proprietary nature of the data set, external access is limited.
About: The Fiscal Research Center has purchased the Mergent Municipal Securities Database, which includes daily data updates. This database provides terms and conditions on more than 3.6 million U.S. municipal securities.
Georgia State University also has obtained a license to use the CUSIP numbering system for securities, which is the unique identifier code for issuers of securities — a precondition for the Mergent and Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) databases.
Access: Due to contractual obligations, this data is kept on a server with limited access that is managed by the Fiscal Research Center. Georgia State University faculty, staff and students may request extract or access to the Mergent Database by signing the required statement of use.
For questions about accessing the Mergent Database, please contact Lakshmi Pandey at [email protected]. Bart Hildreth serves as the faculty advisor for the municipal securities laboratory and can be reached at [email protected].
About: Walls & Associates converts Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) archival establishment data into a time-series database of establishment information in the National Establishment Time-Series (NETS) Database. The NETS database provides longitudinal data on various dynamics in the U.S. economy that include establishment job creation and loss, sales growth performance, survivability of business startups, mobility patterns, changes in primary markets, corporate affiliations, and historical D&B credit and payment ratings. This data also has information about firms relocating to and from Georgia.
Access: This is a proprietary data set purchased by the FRC. However, extracts or reports based on this information can be generated upon request, and Andrew Young School students or faculty wishing to use this data can make a request for access from the FRC.
Interested persons should send an email request to [email protected] with his or her information, as well as a brief paragraph about the proposed project for which this data will be used. Because of the proprietary nature of the data set, external use is restricted.
About: The Tax Model Files are public-use samples of U.S. federal individual income tax returns, with individual identifiers removed and the remaining data sufficiently rounded and blurred to prevent the identification of individual taxpayers. These have been issued since 1960, and they are of special interest to researchers studying the income tax and the distribution of income. The files are poor in demographic information (no age, race or sex variables) but are rich in income information, especially for higher income taxpayers whose incomes are not likely to be accurately covered in survey data. FRC has SOI data, county-level data, and ZIP code-level data through the most recently available. We also have some data on migration information.
Access: For confidentiality reasons, access is limited to approved FRC staff; however, extracts such as aggregated graphs and tables may be available upon request, with the approval of the Georgia Department of Revenue. More detailed extracts with encrypted IDs must receive approval through the Department of Revenue.