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Because this blog entry covers everything from the budget request to the final determination of the budget, it can become quite long. To help with that, I'll try to partition the blog entry:

• FY17 Budget Request Highlights
• Specific Agency FY17 request highlights
• Reports on the FY17 Request
• Reports on Congressional Developments
• Update log (and sources)

See also FY17 NIH, NSF and AHRQ Budget Developments.
   

Levels in millions of dollars; Agency abbreviations listed below; NCES is for Statistics and Assessment (not NAGB or SLDS)
Latest Action: *Subcommittee mark-up; **Committee mark-up; ***Passed the Floor
&Not available because of lack of sufficient detail in summary, bill or conference report; 
NATD (or blank): No Action To Date
¹The BTS is funded through the Highway Trust Fund with levels determined by the authorizing committees. 
²The  FY12 and FY13 levels include funds from the Working Capital Fund (WCF), as mandated by Congress. These level may differ than what I report in the "final" column of the FY12 and FY13 columns of other blog entries.
³The NCES budget level includes both statistics and assessment, but not Salary and Earnings. Data is from NCES presentation at 3/7/14 COPAFS presentation.
⁴ERS and NASS went through budget revisions in FY15. The FY12, FY13, and FY14 levels have been adjusted to be comparable to the FY15 and FY16 levels. The actual FY12, FY13, and FY14 levels for ERS and NASS are $78.2 M, $71.4 M, $78.1 M and $158.6 M, $166.6 M, and $161.2 M, respectively
⁵The NCHS budget went through an realignment from FY14 to FY15 to account for NCHS having to include business support services provided by the CDC. The comparable FY12, FY13, FY14 and FY15 levels are $138.7 million, 138.7, 140, and 140 respectively. 

FY17 Budget Request Highlights

• Specific Agencies
• • The Bureau of Economic Analysis increase, according to the Congressional Justification, includes $2.6 million in Inflationary Adjustments to "fund the estimated 2017 Federal pay raise of 1.6 percent, the full year costs of the new positions financed for part of FY 2016, and will provide for inflationary increases for non-labor activities, including service contracts, utilities, and rent." It also includes $3 million for a Regional Economic Dashboard "featuring county-level measurements of GDP." Such geographically granular level detail will help to target local and statement governments as well as companies to allocate limited resources to specific locations to maximize economic benefit and speed development. $1.9 million is also proposed to accelerate and improve the quality of economic indicators by "reducing revisions; improving data value by removing the effects of seasonal trends from more industries; and expand coverage to better measure key sectors of the economy. The result will be a full suite of enhanced macroeconomic indicators, delivered to our end users more quickly and with more precision, with improved scope for the 21st century economy to drive decisions on investment, economic growth, and job creation."  
  • The U.S. Census Bureau 
  • The BLS requested an increase of $32 million help offset its approximately 14% cut in purchasing power since FY10 due to inflation. It also seeks $1.6 million to add an annual supplement to the Current Population Survey; $3 million for the first year of activities for a survey of employer-provided training; and $2.5 million for the Consumer Expenditure Survey development of a supplemental statistical poverty measure. 
  • The ERS increase includes $4 million to update the 2012 National Household Food Purchase and Acquisition Survey; $500,000 to examine differences in demographic characteristics of new farmers and ranchers; and $626,000 to conduct research on conservation practice adoption and drought mitigation by American farmers and ranchers in drought-prone regions.
  • The increase for NASS includes $3 million to survey beginning farmers on unmet needs or barriers to access to USDA programs; $1 million to study modern farm structure to improve data on today’s complex farm business structures and farm characteristics; $1 million to enhance current satellite-based agricultural monitoring to provide crop condition, soil moisture, crop progress, and crop yields;  and $2 million will be used to add questions to existing NASS’ surveys (e.g., for cattle, hogs, and poultry) to establish baseline information.
  • According to DOJ budget information, of the BJS $17 million requested increase, " $6.0 million will support the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Sample Boost for Subnational Estimates program, which will provide for a permanent increase to the NCVS household sample in up to 22 states to allow for the production of estimates of victimization for states and select metropolitan statistical areas, large cities, and counties. These 22 states account for 79% of the U.S. population and 80% of crime known to police. The requested increase also includes $2.5 million for two indigent defense initiatives: 1) $1.0 million is for a National Survey of Public Defenders, which will provide statistics on public defenders nationwide; and 2) $1.5 million is for a National Public Defenders Reporting Program, which will provide a mechanism to monitor changes in public defenders’ offices workload and progress towards or deviation from American Bar Association standards for quality of indigent defense services. The remaining amount will be used for other research efforts to help resolve criminal justice issues."
  • The EIA requested 7.4% increase, according to the Congressional Justification, is for four programs: (i) Revamp petroleum data and analysis to provide more regional detail (+$1.5M); (ii) Enhance commercial building energy efficiency data (+$4.4M); (iii) Expand international analysis, including Canada-Mexico collaboration and key economies in Asia (+$2.1M); and (iv) Collect transportation energy consumption data (+$1.0M).
  • The requested budget for NCES supports "the collection, analysis, and dissemination of education-related statistics in response to both legislative requirements and to the particular needs of data providers, data users, and education researchers. The increase would provide $7.1 million to re-initiate the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Birth Cohort, $2.5 million to support a study on student loan repayment and defaults, $2.8 million to collect additional data through the Teaching and Learning International Survey, $0.5 million to support statistical work on the My Brother’s Keeper initiative, and $0.5 million to create P–12 and postsecondary information hubs."
  • The NCSES 
  • The budget for NCHS is held flat in the FY17 request.

Reports on FY17 request:

• COSSA's in-depth analysis of the FY 2017 budget request

Reports on FY17 Congressional Developments:

Updates (and sources):

• Table in Federal Statistics Chapter of Analytical Perspectives and, for past year corrections, 
• 4/12/16: House Draft E&W bill
• 4/19/16: Census number from Senate Approps Press Release
• 4/25/16: BJS and BEA levels from Senate CJS bill report and CJS bill
• 5/17/16: Senate E&W bill for EIA; House Ag Bill for ERS and NASS; House CJS Bill for BEA, BJS, and Census
• 5/24/16: ERS and NASS levels from Senate Ag Committee Report
• 6/9/16: BLS, NCHS, and NCES update from Senate Bill
• 7/6/16: Draft FY17 House LHHS bill 
• 7/14/16: NCES and NCHS levels from House LHHS report language
• 5/1/17: Omnibus
  • NASS and ERS
  • Census, BEA, and BJS
  • EIA
  • BLS, NCES, and NCHS

• Final FY16 Spending Bill Provides Increases for NIH, Census, Statistical Agencies, Amstat News, February 2016. 
• FY16 Statistical Agency Budget Developments, an ASA Community blog entry
• FY16 Budget Request Position NIH, NSF, and Federal Statistical Agencies Well for Congressional Deliberations, Amstat News, April 2015.
• FY15 Budgets for NIH, NSF, Federal Statistical Agencies Finalized, Amstat News, February 2015.
• FY15 Statistical Agency Budget Developments, an ASA Community blog entry
• FY15 NSF and NIH Budget Developments., and ASA Community blog entry 
• FY15 Budget Request Provides Mixed News for NIH, NSF, Statistical Agencies,  Amstat News, May 2014.
• Earlier fiscal year reports available at links in FY15 blog entries

 BEA Bureau of Economic Analysis
BJS Bureau of Justice Statistics
BLS Bureau of Labor Statistics
BTS Bureau of Transportation Statistics 
ERS Economic Research Service
EIA Energy Information Administration
NASS National Agricultural Statistics Service
NCES National Center for Education Statistics 
NCHS National Center for Health Statistics
NCSES National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, NSF
ORES Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, SSA
SOI Statistics of Income Division, IRS

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