CBO's transparency efforts aim to promote a thorough understanding of its work, help people gauge how estimates might change if policies or circumstances differed, and enhance the credibility of its analyses and processes.
The Congressional Budget Office's transparency efforts aim to promote a thorough understanding of its work, help people gauge how estimates might change if policies or circumstances differed, and enhance the credibility of its analyses and processes. This report fulfills CBO's requirement to report on its plans for such efforts.
In 2021, the agency will undertake many activities, with a major focus on two:
- Explaining the methods it uses for its analyses in several topic areas, including health care, economic forecasting, climate change, and credit programs; and
- Providing additional information to help people understand CBO's cost estimates.
Those efforts will build on progress made last year, which included testifying before Congressional committees and answering Members' questions, releasing data, evaluating the accuracy of CBO's estimates, comparing current estimates with previous ones, estimating the effects of policy alternatives, characterizing the uncertainty surrounding estimates, creating data visualizations, and conducting outreach.
- CBO's Recent Publications and Work in Progress as of January 1, 2021January 7, 2021
- Transparency at CBO: Future Plans and a Review of 2019March 12, 2020
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