Hussain, Syed Muhammad and Liu, Lin 
ORCID: 0000-0002-8222-7625
(2023)
A historical dataset of federal government spending changes for Canada.
DATA IN BRIEF, 46.
108850-.
Abstract
This dataset presents a narrative record of all announced federal government spending changes in Canada between 1949q1 and 2012q1. We use the federal government's budget documents, mostly the budget speech, to document announced spending measures. Other budget documents that we use include the Economic Statements, Financial Statements, Mini Budgets, Interim Budgets, and Economic and Budget Updates. We document the motivation behind each announced measure. Based on these motivations, we classify spending changes as exogenous or endogenous. Exogenous changes are those that are not motivated by contemporaneous economic conditions of the country. Endogenous changes are those that are taken in response to current economic conditions. We also document the size of a change, whether it was intended to be temporary or permanent, the duration of the measure, and the size of the measure that was to be implemented in the same year as it is announced. This is the first dataset for any country that comprehensively presents all spending changes undertaken by a government.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Narrative approach, Exogenous and endogenous spending changes, Fiscal policy, Canada, Budget documents |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Management |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Feb 2023 11:09 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Apr 2023 02:09 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108850 |
| Open Access URL: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.108850 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3168434 |
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