Federal Priorities Database News

All energy consumption data have been updated to reflect the latest published information and are now current through 2010:

• Energy Consumption by Source
• Energy Consumption Per Person

All electric emissions indicators have been updated to reflect the latest available published data. This update affects the following datasets, which are now current through 2011:

• Electric Emissions - All Sources
• Electric Emissions - Coal
• Electric Emissions - Natural Gas
• Electric Emissions - Petroleum

The following data have been updated to reflect the latest statistics published by the IRS:

• Federal Tax Collection: updated through 2012

The following health insurance coverage datasets have been updated and are now current through 2011. These were previously called People's Health Insurance and Children's Health Insurance:

• Health Insurance Coverage
• Health Insurance Coverage by Age

We've also switched the source of these data to the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, which is more accurate at the state level than our previous source, the Current Population Survey.

The following housing-related datasets have been updated and are now current through 2011:

• U.S. Housing Owners and Renters
• U.S. Housing Units

The following poverty-related datasets have been updated and are now current through 2011:

• People in Poverty:
• Children in Poverty
• Families in Poverty

We recently updated the Federal Priorities Database to look more like NPP's main site over at nationalpriorities.org.

Some of the navigation has changed, but all the data is intact, and the searches work the same way. If you have any questions, get in touch at research@nationalpriorities.org.

We launched version 2.0 of the Federal Priorities Database a year ago. Since that time, we've been answering your questions, hearing your feedback, and keeping the information current. But we've also been thinking about what's next, and we've hatched a project called Backyard Budget.

We want to provide more localized data, more visualizations, and more access. We plan to address this last goal by going mobile.

The mobile piece of Backyard Budget will bring democracy to Americans’ fingertips by making federal spending data available at the hyper-local level through a mobile app. It will be ...

There's a new education dataset available in the Federal Priorities Database:

• Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies: the amount of money granted to help improve teaching and learning in high-poverty schools.

The database also tracks Title I revenue amounts at the school district level: http://data.nationalpriorities.org/other/schooldistrict/.

The following datasets related to housing occupancy are now current throught 2010. In addition, the source of these data has been changed to the Census Bureau's American Community Survey. The data are available at the state level and go back to 2005.

• Housing Units: the total number of available housing units, along with the percent occupied and percent vacant
• Housing Owners and Renters: the percentage of occupied units that are occupied by owners and by renters