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Government Employee Retirement Systems

Government Retirement Systems is a subset of the Government finances and provides revenues, expenditures, financial assets, and membership information for state and local government retirement systems.

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Government Employee Retirement Systems Data Tables

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Government Employee Retirement Systems Publications

Official publications released by the U.S. Census Bureau have a report number and often list the lead author(s).

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Summary of the Quarterly Survey of Public Pensions for 2021: Q1

July 28, 2021

For the 100 largest public-employee pension systems in the country, assets (cash and investments) totaled $4,635.0 billion in the first quarter of 2021.
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Summary of the Quarterly Survey of Public Pensions for 2020: Q4

July 27, 2021

For the 100 largest public employee pension systems in the country, assets (cash and investments) totaled $4,549.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2020.
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Annual Survey of Public Pensions: Summary Report: 2020

May 2021

The 2019 Annual Survey of Public Pensions provides data on membership, assets, revenues, and expenditures of defined benefit pension plans.

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Quarterly Survey of Public Pensions for 2017: First Quarter

June 29, 2017

Provides national summary data on the revenues, expenditures and composition of assets of the largest defined benefit public employee pension systems.
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Contributions to Public Pensions Experience Significant Gains

May 25, 2017

The 2016 Annual Survey of Public Pensions found that total contributions were $191.6 billion in 2016, increasing 6.6 percent from $179.7 billion in 2015.
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Quarterly Survey of Public Pensions: Second Quarter 2017

September 28, 2017

Data on the revenues, expenditures and composition of assets of the largest defined benefit public employee pension systems for state and local governments.

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2002 Annual Survey of Public Pensions: State & Local Tables

January 01, 2002

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2016 Annual Survey of Public Pensions: State & Local Tables

January 01, 2016

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2000 Annual Survey of Public Pensions: State & Local Tables

January 01, 2000

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Building Permits

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Census of Governments

Identifies the scope and nature of the nation's state and local government sector including public finance and public employment and classifications.
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Information about congressional apportionment for the current and past Decennial Censuses.
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This office advises Congress, and tribal and intergovernmental associations on Census Bureau programs and policies, and advises the Census Bureau’s management.
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Statistics on the number of state and local government civilian employees and their gross payrolls for the month of March.
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Public assistance refers to assistance programs that provide either cash assistance or in-kind benefits to individuals and families from any governmental entity
Redistricting Data

The Census Bureau provides state legislatures with the small area census population tabulations necessary for legislative redistricting.
Survey of State Government Research and Development (SGRD)

Measures the extent of R&D activity performed and funded by the governments of each of the nation’s 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
Voting and Registration

In election years, the Current Population Survey collects data on reported voting and registration, and later reports stats by turnout, age, race and origin.