Number of General-Purpose Local Governments Per United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas (including both PMSAs and CMSAs) from 2002 Census of Governments Bennett, Andrew Johnson, Paul census data land distribution local governments metropolitan statistical areas population ICPSR.I.A Extracted from the 2002 Census of Governments, this dataset provides the number of general-purpose local governments in each United States Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). Data from Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Areas (CMSAs) and their component Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas (PMSAs) are included. There are nine variables in this study. They contain information on locations (city and state); Metropolitan Statistical Areas; population at each location in the year 2000; number of General-Purpose Governments at each location as well as per 100,000 people; water, land, and total area in square miles; and General-Purpose Governments per 100,000 square miles of land area. 2011-08-04 census/enumeration data 27806 10.3886/ICPSR27806.v1 United States Census Bureau's 2002 Census of Governments United States 2002 ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/).