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\name{cog_balances}
\alias{cog_balances}
\title{Cash and security holdings for one or more governments}
\usage{
cog_balances(
  govid,
  years,
  category = NULL,
  per_capita = FALSE,
  adjust_to_year = NULL,
  basis = c("harmonized", "raw"),
  recipe = NULL
)
}
\arguments{
\item{govid}{Canonical govid(s): a character vector, or a data frame with a
`canonical_govid` column (e.g. from [cog_gov_search()]).}

\item{years}{Integer vector of fiscal years.}

\item{category}{Optional character vector of categories to keep. One of
`"Fund Balances"`, `"Insurance Trust Balances"`,
`"Retirement System Holdings"`. There is deliberately no `subtype`
argument: for holdings, `category` is a strict coarsening of
`balance_subtype` (unlike the money verbs, where the two axes cross), so
every combination would be either redundant or empty.
`category = "Fund Balances"` is exactly the `general` family
(`W01`/`W31`/`W61`). `balance_subtype` is returned, so a finer split is
one `dplyr::filter()` away.}

\item{per_capita}{Divide holdings by population. Note this is a **stock per
resident** (reserves per person), which is *not* comparable to
[cog_spending()]'s per-capita figures -- those are a flow per person.}

\item{adjust_to_year}{Deflate to this year's dollars (CPI-U).}

\item{basis}{Accepted for uniformity with the money verbs, but currently a
**no-op**: `harmonization_map` carries no balance-code rows, so harmonized
and raw space are identical for holdings. Reported in
`provenance$basis_note`.}

\item{recipe}{Optional harmonization recipe id (see [cog_recipes()]).
`"cash_securities_z77_wide"` and `"cash_securities_z78_wide"` bridge the
wide era to the modern one.}
}
\value{
Tibble with columns `year`, `canonical_govid`, `gov_name`,
  `balance_subtype`, `category`, `amt_nominal`, optional
  `amt_per_capita_nominal` and `pop_source` (when `per_capita = TRUE`),
  optional `amt_real` and `amt_per_capita_real` (when `adjust_to_year` is
  set), `codes_included`, `aggregate_fallback`, `notes`. Amounts are full
  US dollars.

  Carries a `provenance` attribute matching
  `inst/schemas/provenance-v1.json`, whose `balance_caveats` block reports
  `not_gaap`, `not_gaap_note`, `coverage_window` (measured per-subtype year
  extents) and `truncated` (subtypes whose coverage falls short of the
  requested years). `expenditure_concept`/`revenue_concept` are `NA` --
  holdings are a stock, not a flow, so neither concept vocabulary applies.
}
\description{
Returns Census cash-and-security holdings (`category_type = "balance"`):
fund balances, retirement system holdings and insurance trust balances.
}
\section{Holdings are not GAAP fund balance}{

Census holdings are **gross** -- no liabilities are netted -- so a reserve
ratio built from them overstates what is actually available. They are not
comparable to a GAAP fund balance from an ACFR.
}