Annual survey of governments, 1979
Subtitle: employment statistics
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census
Series: Annual survey of governments: government employment and finance files; ICPSR -- 8149; ICPSR (Series) -- 8149
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: 20407
Subjects: State governments; Officials and employees; Statistics; Local officials and employees
Description: These data were collected in 1979 from all local governments included in the 1977 Census of Governments. A sample was drawn of approximately 20,000 local units including all county governments in the 75 largest SMSAs, other governments in counties with over 50,000 population, all municipalities with 25,000 or more inhabitants, and all school districts with over 6,000 pupils. Information is included on full- and part-time employment, full-time equivalent employment, and payroll statistics by type of government, and by function. The data collection also includes statistics on labor-management relations, number of organized employees, number of bargaining units, number of contractual agreements, and number of employees covered by contractual agreements.
Notes: These data files detail financial and employment statistics for over 16,000 governmental units in the United States. The data were collected by the Governments Division of the Census Bureau. These files present information for a sample of state, county, and municipal governments, as well as for school and special districts. The data items are essentially the same as those present in the Census of Governments files.

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Data collected: 1979.

United States.

20,407 records; approximately 350 variables; logical record length of 3,120 characters.