Survey of Governments: Annual Finance Statistics, 1979

<p>This collection contains data taken from a survey of all State governments, all school district governments, and a sample of approximately 14,000 other local governmental units taken from the 1977 Census of Governments. Finance data on revenue, expenditure, indebtedness and debt transactions, and cash and security holdings are provided for States and local governments. Revenue data are provided by source; expenditures are shown by function such as education, highways, and public welfare, and also by type including intergovernmental, current operation, and capital outlay. In addition, the financial statistics of employee-retirement systems and of utilities operated by State and local governments are shown.</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/ICPSR08148.v1">https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08148.v1</a>. We highly recommend using the ICPSR version as they may make this dataset available in multiple data formats in the future.</p>