Census of Governments, 2002: Employment Statistics (ICPSR 4425)
Version Date: Jul 29, 2014 View help for published
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United States. Bureau of the Census
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04425.v2
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The United States Census Bureau conducts a Census of Governments every five years -- in years ending in "2" or "7" -- to collect information about employment in the United States. The 2002 Census included approximately 87,000 state and local governments. This collection includes information regarding full-time and part-time employment, part-time employee hours worked, full-time equivalent employment, and payroll statistics by type of government (state, county, city, township, special district, and school district), and by governmental function. Government functions include elementary and secondary education, higher education, police protection, fire protection, financial administration, other government administration, judicial and legal, highways, public welfare, solid waste management, and sewerage. This function information also includes parks and recreation, health, hospitals, water supply, electric power, gas supply, transit, natural resources, correction, libraries, air transportation, water transport and terminals, other education, state liquor stores, social insurance administration, and housing and community development.
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For additional information on the Census of Governments, 2002: Employment Statistics, please refer to the United States Census Bureau Web site.
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The purpose of the employment survey was to measure the number of public employees and their payrolls at a point in time according to a detailed cross-classification by function and type of employee (full- or part-time).
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Data that are derived from a census are not subject to sampling variability.
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2008-01-14
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- United States. Bureau of the Census. Census of Governments, 2002: Employment Statistics. ICPSR04425-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2014-07-29. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04425.v2
2014-07-29 SPSS, SAS, and Stata setup files, as well as SPSS and Stata system files, a SAS transport (CPORT) file, a tab-delimited data file, and an R data file have been added to the collection. Additionally, a codebook has been created.
2008-01-14 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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Part 2 (Individual Units Governments Integrated Directory File) and Part 3 (Final Version of Individual Unit Data File Restructured with Added Identifiers) contain a weight variable named "WEIGHT" that users may wish to use in analysis.
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These data are freely available to data users at ICPSR member institutions. The curation and dissemination of this study are provided by the institutional members of ICPSR. How do I access ICPSR data if I am not at a member institution?