Census of Governments, 1997: Employment Statistics

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.

美国人口普查局（United States Census Bureau）每五年开展一次政府普查（Census of Governments），普查年份为以“2”或“7”结尾的公历年份，旨在收集美国就业领域的相关信息。1997年的政府普查覆盖了约8.7万个州及地方政府。本数据集包含按政府类型（州、县、市、镇、特别区、学区）与政府职能分类的多项统计指标，具体包括全职与兼职就业情况、兼职员工工时、全职当量就业人数以及薪资统计数据。其中涉及的政府职能涵盖初等与中等教育、高等教育、警务保护、消防保护、财务行政管理、其他政府行政管理、司法与法务、公路管理、公共福利、固体废物管理、污水处理；上述职能范畴还包括公园与休闲服务、卫生保健、医院运营、供水、电力供应、燃气供应、公共交通、自然资源管理、惩教事务、图书馆服务、航空运输、水运及码头运营、其他教育业务、州酒类商品专卖、社会保险管理以及住房与社区发展。