DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04422.v1
title: Census of Governments, 1997: Employment Statistics
title: Version 1

description: 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 1997 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.
description: 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).
description: Part 5 (Individual Local Governments Data File Restructured by Government Unit With Added Identifiers), Part 6 (Individual Local Governments Integrated Directory Data File), and Part 8 (State Employment and Payroll By Function Governments Integrated Directory Data File) all contain a weight variable named "WEIGHT" that users may wish to use in analysis.
description: 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..
description: Datasets: 
 
 DS0: Study-Level Files 
 DS1: County Area Data File 
 DS2: County Area Data File Restructured by Government Unit with Added Identifiers 
 DS3: County Area Governments Integrated Directory Data File 
 DS4: Individual Local Governments Data File 
 DS5: Individual Local Governments Data File Restructured by Government Unit with Added Identifiers 
 DS6: Individual Local Governments Integrated Directory Data File 
 DS7: State Employment and Payroll by Function Data File 
 DS8: State Employment and Payroll by Function Governments Integrated Directory Data File 
 DS9: State Employment and Payroll Summary by Type-of-Government Data File 
 DS10: State Employment and Payroll Summary by Type-of-Government Governments Integrated Directory Data File 
 DS11: State Employment and Payroll Summary by Type-of-Government and Function Restructured Data File with Added Identifiers
description: Census of Governments Series
description: mail questionnaire 
 For additional information on the Census of Governments, 1997: Employment Statistics, please refer to the United States Census Bureau Web site.
description: State and local governments in the United States. Smallest Geographic Unit: FIPS Place Code
description: Data that are derived from a census are not subject to sampling variability.