OMB Approved Apportionment Documents for Fiscal Year 2022

Featuring approved apportionment documents for Fiscal Year 2022, as released by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. The data is organized by government department and file type, and includes scripts for reproducibility. It fulfills a legal requirement for public posting of documents that detail OMB-approved plans to use budgetary resources.

Use Cases

• Analyze apportionment document distribution and frequency across government departments to understand budgetary resource allocation.
• Study the structure and content of apportionment documents by file type to identify common reporting formats and requirements.
• Use the provided reproducibility scripts to automate the extraction and processing of apportionment data for fiscal analysis.

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative U.S. Office of Management and Budget, ensuring official provenance.
• Includes reproducibility scripts, which supports transparent and consistent data processing workflows.
• Covers a specific and complete fiscal year (2022), providing a bounded temporal scope for analysis.

Limitations

• The specific data schema, including column names and row counts, is unknown, complicating direct analytical use.
• The dataset consists of documents rather than structured tabular data, requiring significant text parsing or manual review for quantitative analysis.

Provenance

Source

Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

Collection Method

Harvested from the OMB website and hosted by ICPSR Dataverse.

Time Range

Fiscal Year 2022

Freshness

The metadata was last updated in February 2026, but the underlying data covers Fiscal Year 2022.

Geography

United States federal government