Census of governments, 1977
Subtitle: employment summary statistics
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census
Series: Census of governments: government employment and finance files; ICPSR -- 8117; ICPSR (Series) -- 8117
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Number of pages: 516
Subjects: State governments; Officials and employees; Statistics; Local officials and employees
Description: This data collection contains the October 1977 employment and payroll figures by function. Full-time and part-time employment and payrolls are shown for corrections, education, administration, fire protection, health, libraries, police, public welfare, utilities, parks, transit, sewarage, and highways. Data are also included for labor-management relations, employee benefits, health, hospital or disability insurance, and life insurance. There are three conceptual files in this data collection. File A provides data for each individual state and local government. File B has data for county areas (local governmental units within each county). File C has United States summary and state summaries for the following types of governments: l) State and Local Government Total, 2) State Government, 3) Local Government Total, 4) Local Governments in SMSAs, 5) Counties, 6) Municipalities, 7) Townships, 8) School Districts, and 9) Special Districts.
Notes: Every 5th year the Annual Survey of Governments (ASG) is expanded and a complete census of United States governmental units is undertaken. Like the ASG, the Census of Governments contain detailed financial and employment statistics, the Censuses, however, contain data for over 78,000 states, counties, municipalities, and school and special districts in the United States. Included among the items tabulated are data on resources, expenditures in various areas, assets and operations of the numerous governmental jurisdictions reported in the files. For each census, there are two files: the employment statistics file and the finance statistics file.

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Data collected: 1977.

United States.

File A: 79,928 records; File B: 3,120 records; File C: 468 records. Each of the files has a logical record length of 2,115 characters.