Summary: | State and local government employment data are
provided in these files, which from 1973 to 1976 were titled ANNUAL
SURVEY OF GOVERNMENTS: GOVERNMENT EMPLOYMENT FILES. Two types of files
in this series are produced by the Census Bureau in tandem: the ANNUAL
SURVEY OF GOVERNMENTS: FINANCE STATISTICS and the ANNUAL SURVEY OF
GOVERNMENTS: EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS. For the 1973 and 1974 data, ICPSR
combined the Employment and Finance Files under one study number in a
single collection (ANNUAL SURVEY OF GOVERNMENTS, 1973 AND
1974:GOVERNMENT EMPLOYMENT AND FINANCE FILES [ICPSR 7391]). Employment
Statistics files include full- and part-time employment, full-time
equivalency, and payroll statistics. Data are supplied by type of
government and by function. Governmental functions include education
(elementary, secondary, and higher education), police and fire
protection, financial and central administration, judicial and legal,
utilities, public welfare, parks and recreation, health care, transit,
and natural resources. Employment Statistics files may have several
record types, each corresponding to a type of governmental unit, with
the same technical characteristics. Finance Statistics files provide
data for revenues, expenditures, indebtedness and debt transactions,
and cash and security holdings. Revenue data are listed by source, and
expenditures are listed by function and type. Functions include
education, administration, transit, and public welfare. Expenditure
types include intergovernmental transactions, current operations, and
capital outlays. Data also are presented for employee retirement
systems operated by governments and for utilities operated by state
and local governments. Records in this series for local governments in
metropolitan areas carry Federal Information Processing Standards
(FIPS) Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA) codes. All
records contain FIPS state and county codes where
appropriate. |
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