uscogdata/man/cog_spending.Rd

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\name{cog_spending}
\alias{cog_spending}
\title{Summarized spending by category}
\usage{
cog_spending(
  govid,
  years,
  category = NULL,
  per_capita = FALSE,
  adjust_to_year = NULL,
  basis = c("harmonized", "raw"),
  recipe = NULL,
  expenditure_concept = c("primary", "direct", "total"),
  complete = FALSE,
  limit = NULL,
  offset = NULL
)
}
\arguments{
\item{govid}{Character vector of `canonical_govid` values.}

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

\item{category}{Character vector of category names (from
`summary_categories.category`), or `NULL` for all categories broken out
one row each. The reserved value `"All Categories"` instead returns a
single summed row per `(year, canonical_govid, subtype)`, covering every
category inside the requested concept's subtype scope. It cannot be
combined with other category names, and it is not the same thing as
`expenditure_concept = "total"`: the concept chooses which subtypes are in
scope, `"All Categories"` chooses whether rows inside that scope are
broken out or summed. Because the result keeps one row per
`spend_subtype`, filtering the returned frame to
`spend_subtype == "operations"` gives an operating-expenditure total.}

\item{per_capita}{If `TRUE`, adds `amt_per_capita_nominal` (and
`amt_per_capita_real` when `adjust_to_year` is set) using the per-year
Census F-33 population from `gov_population_yearly`. Result also gains
a `pop_source` column with values `"census_f33"` or `"unavailable"`
(the latter for gov types 4/5 and any row whose population is missing
in that year).}

\item{adjust_to_year}{Integer base year for CPI-U real-dollar conversion,
or `NULL` for nominal only.}

\item{basis}{`"harmonized"` (default) sums item codes through the
cross-vintage harmonization mapping (folding series-break-affected
codes onto a comparable target and excluding aggregate / discontinued
rows -- see the `harmonization` block in `cog_explain()`); `"raw"`
reproduces the pre-Phase-R2 behavior (published item codes, no
folding). On a corpus with `schema_version < 5` (no harmonization
tables), `basis` silently resolves to `"raw"` when left at its default
and the resolution is recorded in the provenance; explicitly passing
`basis = "harmonized"` on such a corpus aborts. Ignored when `recipe`
is set (see below).}

\item{recipe}{Optional harmonization recipe id (see [cog_recipes()]) for
multi-code cross-vintage series that a 1:1 harmonized_code mapping
can't express (e.g. a wide-era aggregate that only splits into leaf
codes in the modern era). Mutually exclusive with `category`. The
result's subtype column reads `"recipe"` and `category` reads the
recipe's label. Requires `schema_version >= 5`. A recipe query bypasses
`basis` entirely (it joins `long` directly rather than going through
the `*_annotated`/`*_annotated_harmonized` views), so the `basis`
argument is ignored and the result's provenance reports
`basis = "recipe"` with an inert `harmonization` block (`applied =
FALSE`, pointing at the `recipe` block instead) rather than a
possibly-misleading `"harmonized"`/`"raw"` value.}

\item{expenditure_concept}{Which spending concept to return. Concepts are
  defined as sets of the crosswalk's `spend_subtype` values -- never as
  item-code first letters, which cannot classify correctly (prefix `Y`
  alone spans revenue, expenditure, and balance codes):

  * `"primary"` (default) -- the government's own service provision:
    `operations` + `capital` + `assistance` subtypes.
  * `"direct"` -- Census's published Direct Expenditure: `primary` plus
    `interest` (interest on debt) and `insurance_benefits` (insurance
    trust benefit payments, e.g. pensions -- Census manual section
    5.2.2.1 includes payments to retirees in Direct).
  * `"total"` -- `direct` plus the intergovernmental leg: payments to
    local governments (`M` codes), to the state government (`L` codes,
    excluding the `L--` family-total rollup), and state payments to
    school systems (`Q11`/`Q12`/`Q18`), so results gain rows with
    `spend_subtype == "intergovernmental"`. Requires the active corpus's
    `summary_categories` to carry M/L rows (added by cog_pipeline PR
    #59); aborts with class `uscogdata_ig_categories_unsupported` on an
    older corpus rather than silently under-reporting. Mutually
    exclusive with `recipe` (a recipe already defines its own component
    codes).

  **Do not sum `"total"` results across levels of government** (e.g.
  state + county + city): a state's `M12` payment to a school district is
  the same dollar the district reports as its own direct `E12`, so
  summing both double-counts it. This matters in particular with
  [cog_geographic_rollup()], which sums across exactly that kind of
  multi-layer government set.

  In the legacy wide era (<= FY2011), some functions are published ONLY
  as an aggregate-flagged family total (e.g. Corrections' `E04`/`E05`
  split), which the Direct leg excludes by construction but the IG leg
  deliberately keeps (see `inst/sql/24-ig_long.sql`). For a `"total"`
  query, any (year, category) where this leaves intergovernmental rows
  with NO Direct counterpart is flagged: the affected rows' `notes`
  name the harmonization recipe that recovers the missing Direct
  component (when one exists), and
  `provenance$expenditure_concept_direct_suppressed` is `TRUE` -- the
  figure in those rows is the intergovernmental leg alone, not Direct +
  IG. When `category = "All Categories"` is combined with
  `expenditure_concept = "total"`, this detection cannot run (it keys on
  per-category rows, which all-categories mode collapses to one literal
  value), so `expenditure_concept_direct_suppressed` is `NA` rather than a
  possibly-false `FALSE`; query an explicit `category` to get a real
  answer.}

\item{complete}{If `TRUE`, fill the requested grid so that a cell the
  corpus does not carry still appears, labelled with **why** it is
  missing, and add a `value_source` column to every row:

  * `"reported"` — the corpus carries this cell.
  * `"census_zero"` — dense-source year (`<= FY2011`), cell absent:
    Census published `$0`. `amt_nominal` is `0`.
  * `"not_reported"` — sparse-source year (`>= FY2012`), cell absent: the
    government did not report, and the value is unknown. `amt_nominal` is
    `NA`, **not** `0` — writing a zero there would invent data.

  The grid comes from the corpus's `code_set` table, scoped to each
  government's own type, so a county is never filled with cells only a
  state can report. Reported rows are passed through untouched.

  Defaults to `FALSE` (the historical behaviour: absent cells simply do
  not appear). Needs a corpus published from 2026-07-29 onward, which is
  when `representation`/`code_set` began shipping; aborts with class
  `uscogdata_representation_unavailable` otherwise. Not available with
  `recipe` or with `expenditure_concept = "total"` (class
  `uscogdata_complete_unsupported`) — neither draws its cells from
  `code_set`.}

\item{limit}{Maximum number of result rows to return, pushed into the SQL
query itself (`LIMIT`/`OFFSET`) rather than applied after the full
result is materialized. `NULL` (the default) returns every matching row,
exactly as before this parameter existed. Mutually exclusive with
`recipe` and with `complete = TRUE` -- see `offset` and `total_rows`.}

\item{offset}{Rows to skip before `limit` starts counting (0-based).
Ignored if `limit` is `NULL`; defaults to `0L` when `limit` is set.}
}
\value{
Tibble with columns `year`, `canonical_govid`, `gov_name`,
  `spend_subtype`, `category`, `amt_nominal`, optional `amt_real`,
  optional `amt_per_capita_nominal`, optional `amt_per_capita_real`,
  optional `pop_source`, `codes_included`, `aggregate_fallback`, `notes`,
  and `value_source` when `complete = TRUE`.
  Carries a `provenance` attribute matching `inst/schemas/provenance-v1.json`,
  whose `completion` block reports `applied`, `rows_filled`, and the
  per-year `absence_means` rule that was applied. When `limit` is set,
  also carries a `total_rows` attribute: the full unpaginated row count,
  computed by the same query (`COUNT(*) OVER()`) rather than a second
  round trip -- so a caller walking pages never has to ask "how many are
  there" separately.
}
\description{
One row per `(year, canonical_govid, spend_subtype, category)`. Amounts are
returned in **full U.S. dollars** (the raw corpus stores them in $1,000s;
this verb multiplies by 1000 so downstream code can freely rescale to
millions/billions). The conversion is recorded in the provenance attribute
under `transformations$units_conversion`.
}