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jared b03f095e49 docs: document cog_balances() and correct stale CLAUDE.md claims (#25)
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existed for cog_spending/cog_revenue), and corrects CLAUDE.md's SQL-layer
claim, view count, test count and fixture-year description against
measured values. Also documents balance_caveats in
inst/schemas/provenance-v1.json (test-first: added a schema-documentation
test to test-balances.R, confirmed it failed, then fixed the schema) and
fleshes out cog_balances()'s @return roxygen to enumerate its conditional
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% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
% Please edit documentation in R/balances.R
\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.
}