90 



Table A. — Expcnditxtrvn ' for research and statistical surveys ' 

 from funds allocated under the Plnuri/ency Relief Ads of 

 1935, 1936, and 1937 



(Data compiled by the OfBce of the Commissioner of Accounts and 

 Deposits, Treasury Department. Figures in thousands of dollars] 



Fiscal years : 



1936 23, 942 



1937 48, 233 



1938 (to Apr. 30, 1938, only) 23,546 



Total 95, 721 



• Basis of checks issued. 



= Exclusive of "professional and technical projects," "Youth projects," 

 "Miscellaneous women's projects," "Educational projects. ' "Clerical 

 projects," "Art, literary, and recreational projects." and some mis- 

 cellaneous and unclassified projects of a similar nature included under 

 the general heading "Educational, profes.sional, and clerical projects." 



On the basis of the data to April 30, 1938, in table A, 

 the annual rate of expenditures during the first 10 

 months of the fiscal j^ear 1938 was about 28.3 million 

 dollars. During the 4 months January to April 1938, 

 inclusive, the average monthly rate was 2.1 million dol- 

 lars (by subtraction of the amount given in the 

 Report of the President of the United States to the 

 Congress Showing the Financial Status of Funds Pro- 

 vided in the Emergency Relief Appi'opnation Acts as 

 of December SI, 1937, page 169, table YIII B) . Hence 

 the amount of research expenditures from Emergency 

 Relief Act funds alone, and exclusive of professional, 

 technical, educational, and other related i^rojects, was 

 48.2 million dollars for the fiscal year 1937, and will 

 probably be about 28 million dollars for the fiscal year 

 1938. 



Table B. — Expenditures for research and statistics under the 

 Federal Works Program,^ fiscal years 1931 and 1938 



[Data compiled by the Worlis Progress Administration. Figures in thousands o( 



dollars] 



1 Covers the Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937. 

 * Estimated for entire fiscal year on basis of expenditure data for first 10 months. 

 ' Does not include expenditures for projects approved under the E. R. A. Act of 

 1935 or engineering and mapping surveys. 



All proposals for projects to be operated under the 

 Works Program, whether sponsored by local, State, 

 or Federal agencies, are subject to technical review by 

 the Works Progress Administration, which also acts 

 in a coordinating capacity to assure that projects ap- 

 proved for operation are suited to the purposes of tlie 

 Works Program. Table B summarizes recent expendi- 

 tures for this program. 



National Resources Committee 



Table C. — Research obligations ' of Federal agencies from emer- 

 gency funds for the fiscal years 1931 and I'JSS 



Compiled from (I) individual appropriation paragraphs in the Bu4get of the United 

 States Qommnent, 1939, (2) direct reports from certain agencies, and (3) detail from 

 the Works Progress Administration corresponding to table B. Figures In mil- 

 hons of dollars] 



Types of emergency funds 



Total- 



National Industrial Recovery -. 



Public Works Administration 



Federal Emergency Relief .Vdministration' 



From processing tax proceeds (.\. A. A.) 



Emergency reliel allocations through Works Progress Adminis- 

 tration 1 



Emergency relief allocations not through Works Progress -Ad- 

 ministration 



' Includes some allocations and expenditures. 



'In process of liquidation. 



' Sum of amounts reported in table B, lines (A) and (C). 



Tables A and B represent expenditures, and table 

 C shows obligations largely. These and other dif- 

 ferences are noted in headings, footnotes, and com- 

 ments with the respective tables. 



A summary of these tables may be made in various 

 ways, and somewhat variant results may be obtained. 

 The quickest summary method is to add to the totals 

 of table C, which gives research obligations of Federal 

 agencies from emergencj' funds, to the expenditures 

 reported in table B for "State, local, and national pro- 

 grams." The results are about 54 million dollars for 

 1937 and about 30 million dollars for 1938, which are 

 the amounts used in the text of this report. Data from 

 table A, compiled by an entirely independent classifi- 

 cation, are confirmatory of the general order of magni- 

 tude of these summary results, especially when the 

 exclusions listed in footnote 2 to table A are taken 

 into account. 



Incomplete Compilations 



The following compilations were not completed for 

 this study, but might be included in any similar survey 

 in the future : 



(1) Comparison of research expenditures in tlie United States 

 and selected foreign countries. 



(2) Amounts of researcli expenditures classified by the gen- 

 eral period in which the research function began and by agency 

 or general subject field. 



(3) A relatively comprehensive separation of expenditures 

 for research (or for research personnel) into amounts spent at 

 the home office in the District of Columbia and amounts spent 

 in the field, by agency or by general subject field. 



(4) Comparison of professional and scientific staffs of agen- 

 cies with amounts of research undertaken, by agency. 



(5) Extension to 1938 of the price index of Federal expendi- 

 tures from 1915 to 1920, compiled for the annual report of the 

 Secretary of the Treasury for 1926; and use of the index in 

 correcting historical data on research expenditures for price 

 changes. 



(6) Research expenditures from emergency funds, by agency. 

 (Data by Federal agencies on allocations of W. P. A. funds were 

 received too late for use in this study.) 



