The National Academies Press | Choosing the Nation's Fiscal Future

User's Guide and Spreadsheets for Choosing the Nation's Fiscal Future

Mark David Menchik

This guide offers supporting materials to permit analysts to use, update, and extend the quantitative long-term budget analyses conducted for Choosing the Nation�s Fiscal Future, the report of a committee of the National Research Council and the National Academy of Public Administration. The report and its appendixes are available at http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12808.

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PDF 1.5 MB	User's Guide for the spreadsheets of the study Choosing the Nation's Fiscal Future Text that briefly describes the construction, use, updating, and extension of the study spreadsheets that follow.
Excel Spreadsheet 475 KB	Baseline estimation spreadsheet Spreadsheet that estimates the study's approximately 10- and 75-year budget baselines.
Excel Spreadsheet 1 MB	Baseline display spreadsheet Paralleling the four spreadsheets below, this spreadsheet projects and displays the federal budget assuming that spending and revenues follow the baseline.
Excel Spreadsheet 1 MB	Spreadsheet for the "low" path Projects and displays the study's illustrative, sustainable path of "low" spending and revenues.
Excel Spreadsheet 1 MB	Spreadsheet for the "intermediate-1" path The first illustrative "intermediate" path.
Excel Spreadsheet 1 MB	Spreadsheet for the "intermediate-2" path The second illustrative "intermediate" path.
Excel Spreadsheet 1 MB	Spreadsheet for the "high" path The study's illustrative, sustainable path of "high" spending and revenues.