Annual survey of governments, 1986
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 -- 8977; ICPSR (Series) -- 8977
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Subjects: State governments; Officials and employees; Local officials and employees; Statistics
Description: State and local government employment data are provided in this file. Data are supplied by type of government and by function and include full- and part-time employment, full-time equivalency, and payroll statistics. Governmental functions include education (elementary, secondary, and higher education), police and fire protection, financial and central administration, judicial and legal, utilities, public welfare, parks and recreation, health care, transit, and natural resources.
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.

Chronological coverage: October 1986. Data collected: October 1986.

Self-enumerated forms mailed to governmental units.

Survey data.

United States.

LRECL data format. There are six "record types" in this file, each corresponding to a type of governmental unit. All six record types have the same technical characteristics. Records for local governments in metropolitan areas carry (FIPS) SMSA codes.

Codebook available.

Part number: 1 ; file structure: rectangular ; case count: 22,383 ; variable count: approx. 295 ; LRECL: 3,600 ; records per case: 1.

The universe is represented by a sample, drawn from the 1982 Census of Governments, of approximately 22,000 local governments plus the governments of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Universe: State and local governments in the United States, including counties, municipalities, townships, school districts, and special districts.

Public employment in 1986. GE86 No.1. Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office.

City employment in 1986. GE86 No.2. Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office.

County government employment in 1986. GE86 No.4 Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office.