Census of Governments, 1977: Finance Summary Statistics (ICPSR 8118)

Published: Jan 18, 2006

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

Series:

Census of Governments Series

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08118.v1

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Project Description

Summary

This data collection contains October 1977 finance data for state and local governments for each of eight general categories: revenue from taxes, intergovernmental revenue, revenue from charges, expenditures, debts, cash and security holdings, insurance trust system data, and government summary data. There are 14 data files in this collection. Parts 1-12 provide data for all state and local governmental units. Part 13 contains summaries for local governmental units aggregated to the county level. Part 14 contains United States and state summaries for the following types of governments: state and local government total, state government, local government total, local governments in standard metropolitan statistical areas (SMSAs), counties, municipalities, townships, school districts, and special districts.

Citation

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Census of Governments, 1977: Finance Summary Statistics. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08118.v1

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Subject Terms

census data counties debt economic conditions finance government expenditures government revenues local government municipalities school districts state government townships

Geographic Coverage

United States

Scope of Project

Time Period(s)

1977

Data Collection Notes

The codebook is provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.

Methodology

Universe

The 50 state governments and all active local units of government.

Data Source

mailback questionnaires

Version(s)

Original Release Date

1984-05-03

Version Date

2006-01-18

Version History

2006-01-18 File CB8118.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

Notes

Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.
The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.

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