Last Updated: 3/12/96 by Tai Anderson (handerso@census.gov) Welcome to the Governments Divison FTP Site! This file contains a complete directory listing for all Governments Division files on this ftp site. Please note file names and directories are case sensitive. **** All .exe files are self extracting DOS PKZIP archives. **** All .zip files are DOS PKZIP files using version 2.04g of PKZIP. **** All .wk1 files are Lotus 123 worksheet files. **** All .dat files are data file in ASCII text. **** All .txt files are descriptive information about data files. ***************************************************************** * !!!Attention!!! * * * * " New Directory Structure for governments * * Data in ftp.census.gov site" : * * * * pub/govs/apes (Annual Public Employment and Payroll) * * pub/govs/cffr (Consolidated Federal Expenditure Report) * * pub/govs/city (Financial Data for the Largest 50 Cities) * * pub/govs/county (Financeial Data for the Largest Counties) * * pub/govs/estimate (Government Finance Estimates, by Type * * of Government, by State) * * pub/govs/faads (Federal Assistance Award Data System) * * pub/govs/incoming (Directory for incoming files) * * pub/govs/pls (Pulbic Libraries System) * * pub/govs/qpr (Quarterly Public Employee Retirement) * * pub/govs/qtax (Quarterly Tax Revenue) * * pub/govs/school (School Finance Data - Individual unit data) * * pub/govs/state (State Finance Data by State) * * * ***************************************************************** pub/govs [Govs File List Start] readme.txt - This file. manual.txt - Governments Division Classification Manual (ASCII,706K) manual.exe - Governments Division Classification Manual (Zipped,165K) The Governments Division Classification Manual. A detailed description of the concepts, definitions and procedures followed by the Bureau of the Census in the collection and dissemination of statistics on government finances and employment. govstruct.txt - State and Local Government Structure (ASCII, 1.2M) govstruct.exe - State and Local Government Structure (Zipped, 317K) Information about State and Local Government Structure. A description of the governmental structure in each state. Shows information available in appendix A of Vol. 1-1, Government Organization in the 1992 Census of Governments publication series. [Govs File List End] ************************************************************************* * NEW * NEW * NEW * NEW * NEW * NEW * NEW * NEW * NEW * NEW * NEW * NEW * ************************************************************************* /apes Recently release Annual Public Employment and Payroll data: [APES File List Start] - 1992 state government employment data by state apesdoc.txt - Documentation on the State Government Employee and Payroll data release. apesdef.txt - Definitions and explanations of seletected terms. Other individual state files listed as follow: File key = yystxx "yy" = Year "st" = State Government Employment and Payroll data by state "xx" = Two character state or descriptor. ie. ak = Alaska 93stak.dat 93stak.txt 93stak.wk1 93stal.txt 93stal.wk1 . . . [APES File List End] pub/cffr: Consolidated Federal Funds Report (CFFR) Data [CFFR File List Start] 94cffdoc.txt - Documentation on the CFFR data release. 94cffpid.dat - Program identification File. 94cffagn.dat - Agency codes File. 94cffcom.exe - Complete 1994 CFFR data Expands to one data file. 94cffind.exe - Complete 1994 CFFR data Expands to subfiles listed below. File Key = yycffxxx.exe. "yy" = Year "cff" = CFFR data file "xxx" = Two character state or descriptor. ie. AK = Alaska PID = Program Identifcation File. The filenames are lowercase, the full data set expands to 45M. Listing of CFFR data available as subfiles. 94cffak.exe 94cffal.exe 94cffar.exe 94cffas.exe 94cffaz.exe . . . [CFFR File List End] pub/govs/city Financial Data for the Largest Cities. Detailed revenue, expenditure, indebtedness and assets data for the 50 largest cities and 50 largest counties. The governments were selected based on population size and the data cover fiscal years 1988 through 1992. [City File List Start] SIZE NAME DESCRIPTION -------------------------------------------- 243471 88city.dat - 1998 50 Largest Cities Finance Data 243471 89city.dat - 1989 50 Largest Cities Finance Data 243471 90city.dat - 1990 50 Largest Cities Finance Data 243471 91city.dat - 1991 50 Largest Cities Finance Data 243471 92city.dat - 1992 50 Largest Cities Finance Data 159471 citydata.zip- All five years data files (Zipped) 34170 citydoc.txt - Record Layout files for all years [City File List End] pub/govs/county FinancialData for the Largest Fifty Counties. Detailed revenue, expenditure, indebtedness and assets data for the 50 largest cities and 50 largest counties. The governments were selected based on population size and the data cover fiscal years 1988 through 1992. [County File List Start] SIZE NAME DESCRIPTION -------------------------------------------- 206613 Apr 12 18:12 cnty88.dat - 1988 50 Largest Counties Finance Data 206613 Apr 12 18:12 cnty89.dat - 1989 50 Largest Counties Finance Data 206613 Apr 12 18:12 cnty90.dat - 1990 50 Largest Counties Finance Data 206613 Apr 12 18:12 cnty91.dat - 1991 50 Largest Counties Finance Data 206613 Apr 12 18:12 cnty92.dat - 1992 50 Largest Counties Finance Data 31676 Apr 12 18:12 cntydoc.txt - Record Layout files for all years 135117 Apr 12 18:25 coundata.zip - All five years data files (Zipped) [County File List End] pub/govs/state. State Finance Data by State. Revenue, expenditure, indebtedness and assets data for state governments in fiscal years 1989 through 1993. [State Files List] 93XXTAB.EXT - two files for each state, each contains the same data. 93 = Year XX = State Abbreviation TAB = Tabular Format EXT = TXT for Ascii text version, file size is about 8k. WK1 for the Lotus worksheet version, file size is about 10k. 93AKTAB.TXT 93AKTAB.WK1 93ALTAB.TXT 93ALTAB.WK1 93ARTAB.TXT 93ARTAB.WK1 . . . DVBS = Detailed View By State DVBSDATA.TXT - All States listed above in one table, Ascii, 383kb. DVBSDATA.WK1 - All States listed above in one table, Lotus, 1.2mb. DVBS123.EXE - Self extracting DOS archive of all WK1 files listed above including DVBSDATA.WK1, 494kb. DVBS123.ZIP - Same as above in ZIP format, 479kb. DVBSTXT.EXE - Self extracting DOS archive of all TXT files listed above including DVBSDATA.TXT, 180kb. DVBSTXT.ZIP - Same as above in ZIP format, 65kb. TOTALDOC.TXT - How the totals are computed, Ascii, 48kb. All other files are listed below. pub/govs/state SIZE NAME DESCRIPTION -------------------------------------------- 274446 Apr 12 18:25 st92_88.zip -All five years 314629 Apr 12 18:13 stfin88.dat -1988 State Finance Data File (ASCII) 314629 Apr 12 18:13 stfin89.dat -1989 State Finance Data File (ASCII) 314629 Apr 12 18:13 stfin90.dat -1990 State Finance Data File (ASCII) 314629 Apr 12 18:14 stfin91.dat -1991 State Finance Data File (ASCII) 314629 Apr 12 18:14 stfin92.dat -1992 State Finance Data File (ASCII) 31691 Apr 15 15:56 stfindoc.txt -Record layout for all State Finance ASCII files [State Files List End] pub/govs/estimate Government Finance Estimates, by Type of Government, by State. Fiscal year 1989 through 1991 financial data for state and local governments aggregated by state area. Within each state area, there are summations by level of government (total state and local, total state government and total local government) and by type of government (counties, cities, towns, special districts and school districts). Financial features includes revenue, expenditure, indebtedness and assets detail [State Files List End] . SIZE NAME DESCRIPTION -------------------------------------------- 541920 Apr 14 23:53 dac89_91.exe -89-91 Debt and Collections data 526150 Apr 18 10:22 dac89_91.zip -same as above 1364145 Apr 14 23:53 rex89_91.exe -89-91 Revenue and Expenditure data 1348375 Apr 18 09:30 rex89_91.zip -same as above [State Files List End] pub/govs/school School Finance Data (Individual Unit Data). Fiscal year 1990-91 financial data for 15,500 individual school systems--elementary & secondary and higher education-- as defined by the Bureau of the Census. Financial items include detailed data for revenues, expenditures, indebtedness and assets. SIZE NAME DESCRIPTION -------------------------------------------- 2101202 Apr 14 22:33 sch91dat.exe -1991 Schools Data file 9717 Apr 12 15:11 sch91doc.txt -1991 Schools Data Text Documentation pub/govs/incoming This directory has been established to allow ftp users to put files on our system for delivery to division staff. If you leave a file anonymously without prior notification, please send e-mail to the person you are leaving it for or myself bhanon@census.gov to let us know that the file is here. pub/govs/request This directory will house special tabulation data files as requested.