Braddock D, Fujiura G
Am J Ment Defic. 1987 Mar;91(5):450-9.
A comparative analysis of the level of financial effort exhibited in the states for financing mental retardation services was presented. States were ranked on a criterion (aggregate personal income) that compensated for differences in each state's financial capacity. During the FYs 1977-1984 period, on a nationwide basis, state governments spent increasingly more of their own funds for community services and increasingly less for institutional operations; however, combined institutional and community services spending was relatively stable. A hierarchical multiple regression analysis on three economic variables was performed: state size, wealth, and degree of federal assistance. All were very poor predictors of community services fiscal effort, implying the presence of more complex determinants of mental retardation spending. Degree of federal assistance was an important, inversely related, predictor of institutional fiscal effort.
本文对各州为智力障碍服务提供资金所表现出的财政投入水平进行了比较分析。各州根据一项能够弥补各州财政能力差异的标准（个人总收入）进行排名。在1977财年至1984财年期间，从全国范围来看，州政府用于社区服务的自有资金越来越多，而用于机构运营的资金越来越少；然而，机构服务和社区服务的支出总和相对稳定。对三个经济变量进行了分层多元回归分析：州规模、财富和联邦援助程度。所有这些变量对社区服务财政投入的预测能力都很差，这意味着存在更复杂的智力障碍支出决定因素。联邦援助程度是机构财政投入的一个重要的、呈负相关的预测指标。
