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Description & Citation--Study No. 9391

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:9391
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09391
 
Title:Annual Survey of Governments, 1987: Finance Statistics
 
Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census
 
Series:Annual Survey of Governments Series
 
Bibliographic Citation:U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. ANNUAL SURVEY OF GOVERNMENTS, 1987: FINANCE STATISTICS [Computer file]. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 1989. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1990. doi:10.3886/ICPSR09391
 

Scope of Study

Summary:For each governmental unit surveyed in this data collection, finance data are provided for revenues, expenditures, indebtedness and debt transactions, and cash and security holdings. Revenue data are listed by source, and expenditures are listed by function and type. Functions include education, administration, transit, and public welfare. Expenditure types include intergovernmental transactions, current operations, and capital outlays. Data also are presented for employee retirement systems operated by governments and for utilities operated by state and local governments.
 
Subject Term(s):administrative costs, census data, cities, debt, education expenditures, finance, government expenditures, government revenues, government services, labor costs, local government, municipal services, municipal expenditures, public administration, public safety, public utilities, school districts, state government, townships, transportation
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Date(s) of Collection:1987
 
Universe:State and local governments in the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, including counties, municipalities, townships, school districts, and special districts.
 
Data Type:survey data, and aggregate data
 
Data Collection Notes:There are seven "record types" in File A, each corresponding to a type of governmental unit including one for the federal government. All seven record types have the same technical characteristics. Each record in File A contains data for one governmental unit. File C supplies national and state area estimates by level and type of government. It contains 52 groups of eight records each, with one group for each geographic area (the United States, the 50 states, and the District of Columbia). Each group contains one record for each of the following types and levels of government: (1) state and local government total, (2) state total, (3) local total, (4) counties, (5) municipalities, (6) townships, (7) school districts, and (8) special districts. Records for local governments in metropolitan areas carry Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) SMSA codes. All records contain FIPS state and county codes where appropriate.
 

Methodology

Sample:Governmental units canvassed in the finance phase of the 1982 Census of Governments. Governments created since 1982 that meet the population or financial minimums of certainty units are also included.
 
Data Source:official records of state and local governments, and self-enumerated forms mailed to governmental units
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1990-10-16
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2006-01-18.
 
  2006-01-18 - File CB9391.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: File A
  • DS2: File C
 

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