Survey of Governments: Annual Employment Statistics, 1974

<p>This collection contains data on approximately 16,000 governmental units (excluding dependent school districts), sampled by the 1973 and 1974 Annual Survey of Governments. These types of governments are State, county, municipalities, townships, school districts (only as independent units of government), and special districts. The samples utilize the 1970 census populations as a base. The samples are recorded for all counties with a population over 50,000, and all cities having 25,000 inhabitants or more. A random selection of the remaining units was made from a compilation of all local governments within an Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA) or balance of State, further grouped by type of unit and magnitude of expenditure. Employment information is for all paid governmental employees and officials.</p>
<p><strong>Please Note</strong>: This dataset is part of the historical CISER Data Archive Collection and is also available at ICPSR at <a href="https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07391.v1">https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07391.v1</a>. We highly recommend using the ICPSR version as they may make this dataset available in multiple data formats in the future.</p>