CBO

Provider

• provider_name: CBO
• provider_longname: Congressional Budget Office
• provider URL: https://www.cbo.gov
• region: US
• terms of use: https://www.cbo.gov/about/privacy (see Copyright)
• approximate number of datasets: 10

Data accessibility

• SDMX: (If yes, links and SDMX releases implemented: NO
• REST API: NO
• Bulk Download: (if yes, links and formats: XLSX
• Account: NO

Desired datasets

• Description: (brief description of subset that we want on Widukind or list if less than 10)
  • Historical Budget Data
  • Potential GDP and Underlying Inputs

Data tree

• Existence of a hierachy of datasets on web site: NO
• How to recover the information: linear list

1. Revenues, Outlays, Deficits, Surpluses, and Debt Held by the Public Since 1968

Datasets

Download

1. Read HTML page https://www.cbo.gov/about/products/budget-economic-data
2. Find first file (most recent one) URL for each of 10 sections, except Estimates of Automatic Stabilizers
3. Download the file using the first 5 digit code of file name as name of stored file. For dbnomics-source-data, we want to use generic names and not names including date references

Historical Budget Data

• datasetCode: 51134 (from the file name)
• how to get release date: From Excel file property Modified
• dataset docHref: yes/no
• dataset notes: yes/no
• dimension_list: (provided or to be made up from the series)
• use of attributes: yes/no
• attribute_list: (provided or to be made up from the series)
• available frequencies: (across all datasets)
• availability of previous updates: if yes, provide URL
• existence of real time datasets:

Series

• Series key: (provided or to be made up, suggest scheme if necessary)
• Series name: (provided or to be made up from dimensions)
• Series docHref: yes/no
• Series notes: yes/no
• missing values: code for missing values or way to detect them
• date format:
• mixed frequencies in the same dataset: yes/no

Updates

• calendar of future updates: if yes, provide URL
• summary of previous updates: if yes, provide URL
• regular updates: date and time
• RSS flow:
• best way to monitor updates:

Special problems

(like variable names in ESRI)

Other remarks

Data samples

• location: in test_xxx file or light files in dlstats/dlstats/tests/resources
• description: a very brief description of the data samples