Census of Governments, 1972: Government Employment and Finance Files (ICPSR 69)

Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary: This study contains economic and employment data for governmental units in states, cities, towns, counties, school districts, and special districts in the United States in 1972. The employment data provide information on the number and functions of full-time and part-time government employees, retirement and insurance coverage extended to full-time employees, membership of employees in employee organizations, and governmental labor policies for the counties and states (Part 1), c... (more info)

Series: Census of Governments Series

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U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. CENSUS OF GOVERNMENTS, 1972: GOVERNMENT EMPLOYMENT AND FINANCE FILES. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1993. doi:10.3886/ICPSR00069.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00069.v1

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Summary:   This study contains economic and employment data for governmental units in states, cities, towns, counties, school districts, and special districts in the United States in 1972. The employment data provide information on the number and functions of full-time and part-time government employees, retirement and insurance coverage extended to full-time employees, membership of employees in employee organizations, and governmental labor policies for the counties and states (Part 1), cities and towns (Part 2), special districts (Part 3), and school districts (Part 4). The finance data provide information on revenues from and expenditures on education, public buildings, highways, health, hospitals, libraries, natural resources, police, sanitation, public welfare, water transportation, and gas and electricity for counties and states (Part 5), cities and towns (Part 6), special districts (Part 7), and school districts (Part 8). Other items include revenues from taxes, and government debts.

Subject Terms:   census data, counties, economic conditions, employee benefits, employment, finance, government employees, government expenditures, government revenues, local government, municipal services, municipalities, school districts, state government, townships

Geographic Coverage:   United States

Time Period:  

• 1972

Universe:   States, cities, towns, counties, school districts, and special districts in the United States in 1972.

Data Types:   census/enumeration data

Data Source:

United States Bureau of the Census

Original ICPSR Release:  1984-05-03

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• 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 9 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

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