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Governments DivisionPartnering with the SDCs
Presented to the SDC Steering CommitteeFebruary 17, 2011
Kimberly Moore
Assistant Division Chief, Recurring Programs
Christopher Pece
Senior Technical Advisor
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Introduction to Governments Division
• Main Purposes of Governments Division programs
– Provide economic statistics about governments (approximately
90,000 state and local governments)
– Are the public counterpart to business, industry, and services
economic data
– Follow the activity of governments over time
• Response is voluntary
• Virtually no confidentiality restrictions
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Governments Division Programs
• Base Programs: Census of Governments/related annual and quarterly programs
– Finance Data – revenues, expenditures, debt, & assets
– Employment Data – number of employees & payroll
– Organizational Data – number of governments & characteristics
• Reimbursable Programs
– 17 programs conducted on an annual, biannual, or quarterly basis
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Base ProgramsUS State* County* Place
Every 5 Years
Census of Governments X X X XNumber of Units,
Employment, FinanceAnnual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll
X X X X Employment, wages, etc.
Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances
X X X Revenue, expenditures, etc.
Annual Survey of State Government Finances
X X Revenue, expenditures, etc.
Consolidated Federal Funds Report
X X XFederal expenditures,
obligations, & contingent liabilities
Federal Aid to States Report X X Federal expendituresPublic Elementary-
Secondary Education Finance Survey
X X X X Revenue, expenditures, etc.
State and Local Government Public-Employee
Retirement System SurveyX X X X Contributions, assets, etc.
State Government Tax Collections Survey
X X Tax revenue
Quarterly Public-Employee Retirement Systems Survey
X Contributions, assets, etc.
Quarterly Tax Survey X X Tax revenueQuarterly
Annual
Frequency Survey/ProgramData Available For:
Data Items Included
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Reimbursable Programs
USState
*County
*Place
Academic Libraries Survey X XExpenditures, staffing,
circulation, etc.NCES - (Dept of
Education)Juvenile Residential Facility
CensusX X Facility characteristics OJJDP - (DOJ)
Annual Survey of Jails X X X Jails and inmates BJS - (DOJ)
Criminal Justice Expenditure and Employment Survey
X Finance and employment BJS - (DOJ)
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Health Insurance Cost
StudyX X X X
Health plans, premiums, benefits, and enrollment
AHRQ
National Public Education Financial Survey
X X X X Revenue, expendituresNCES - (Dept of
Education)
Non-fiscal surveys of the Common Core of Data
X XDirectory, membership,
teachers, staff, dropouts, graduates
NCES - (Dept of Education)
State Library Agencies Survey X XExpenditures, staffing,
governance, etc.Institute of Museum and Library Services
QuarterlyFederal Assistance Award
Data SystemX X X X
Federal expenditures or obligations.
OMB
Annual
Biennial
Frequency Survey/ProgramData Available For:
Data Items Included Sponsoring Agency
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Importance of GOVS Data
• Tells the story of the fiscal welfare of federal, state, and local government
• Constitutes 12 percent of Gross Domestic Product
• Are the only source of comprehensive, uniform statistics on governments – we are the gold standard
• Helps policy makers make important, informed decisions
State Budgets: The Day of Reckoning
60 Minutes, CBS News
December 2010
How GOVS Collects Data
• Paper Form
• Web Instrument
• Administrative-type Records
• Supplemental Sources
– Manual compilation of government financial standards
– Manual compilation of other available sources (e.g., Mergent’s, Moody’s, other debt-related information)
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Manual Compilation
A Day in the Life
of a Governments Division Analyst
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A Day in the Life of a Governments Division Analyst
GOVS /SDC Recent Partnerships
• State of Tennessee Data Collection
• GOVS U.S. Territories Project
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Future GOVS/SDC Partnership Opportunities
• Increase state and local government response
• Advocate GOVS data and educate users
• Promote the citation of GOVS data when contacted by media/researchers
• Provide feedback on dissemination plans/tools
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Questions for You
• What do you need from us to help you?
• What materials can we provide to best explain our data?
• How can we best disseminate our data?
Questions for Us?
Kimberly Moore
Assistant Division Chief, Recurring Programs
301-763-7643
Christopher Pece
Senior Technical Advisor
301-763-7330
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