Functional Responsibilities of Municipal Governments

Please cite the corresponding article if this dataset is used to support additional findings: Leon-Moreta, A. “Functional Responsibilities of Municipal Governments.” The American Review of Public Administration, November 1, 2016. doi:10.1177/0275074016675721. This study file consists of of data and metadata related to the functional responsibilities of municipal governments. The CSV file (.csv) includes 210 variables describing demographic and service expenditure information for 19513 municipalities in the United States. The Stata do file (.do) contains the functions necessary for the analysis of functional performance and functional entropy of municipalities as reported in Leon-Moreta, A. “Functional Responsibilities of Municipal Governments.” The American Review of Public Administration, November 1, 2016. doi:10.1177/0275074016675721. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0275074016675721