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Archives Jan. 17, 2012

Data Wednesday: County Data

This is the latest entry in NPP’s weekly Data Wednesday series, a getting-started guide to our Federal Priorities Database. All previous posts are archived here.

During past weeks, we’ve been working with state-level data; however, NPP has county-level data too. County-level data is a great way to understand how federal spending impacts local areas.

County-level information isn’t available for everything in the Federal Priorities Database. The easiest way to find it is to use an Advanced Search (don’t worry—it’s easy):

Visit the Create Your Own Search screen.

Click the Advanced Search checkbox.

You’ll ...


Budget Brief- The Pentagon's New Blueprint

Senior research analyst Chris Hellman explains changes at the Pentagon.