Table 9.
Selected Data Sources Relevant to the Governmental Dimension
| INDICATORS | DATA SOURCE |
|---|---|
| 1. Funding | |
| A. Revenue | |
| 1. Intergovernmental | |
| A. Revenue from federal, state, and local government sources | Census of Governments (http://www.census.gov/govs/www). From webpage select year of interest; select Vol. 4, No. 3 or 4, “Finances of County or Municipal and Township Governments” or downloadable spreadsheet or comma-separated-value files |
| 2. Taxes | |
| A. Revenue from all taxes, property, income, and sales taxes | Census of Governments (http://www.census.gov/govs/www). From webpage select “State and Local Government Finances”; select year of interest. Downloadable spreadsheet or comma-separated-value files |
| 3. Lottery | |
| A. Revenue from lottery | Christiansen Capital Advisors (http://www.cca-i.com). From webpage select “Research”; select “Lottery Data”Excel files available for purchase |
| B. Debt | |
| 1. Total debt outstanding | Census of Governments (http://www.census.gov/govs/www). From webpage select year of interest; select vol. 1, no. 3 or 4, “Finances of County or Municipal and Township Governments” or downloadable spreadsheet or comma-separated-value files |
| 2. Policy/Legislation | |
| A. Obstacles to unionization | See Employment Dimension, Workforce Characteristics |
| B. Living wage/minimum wage ordinances | |
| 1. Living wage laws enacted | ACRON Living Wage Resource Center (http://www.acron.org). From webpage select “Living Wage”; select “List of Cities and Counties Where Living Wage Ordinances Have Been Passed” |
| 2. Minimum wage rate | U.S. Department of Labor (http://www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/america.htm). Interactive map providing details of state minimum wage rates |
| 3. Services | |
| A. Privatization | |
| 1. Number of state programs and services privatized | Reason Public Policy Institute Privatization Center (http://www.privatization.org). From webpage select “Privatization Database”; select “Statistics and Trends.” Results of surveys on number of programs and services privatized by state |
| B. Local services/safety net resources | |
| 1. Percent of households reporting poor levels of city or county services, and reporting poor levels of police protection in their neighborhood | American Housing Survey (http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/ahs.htm). Data for each of 47 selected metropolitan areas are collected about every four years, with an average of 12 areas included each year. Downloadable data in SAS and ASCII |
| 2. Expenditures on public welfare, health, and hospitals, police and fire protection, parks and recreation, sewerage and sold waste management | Census of Governments (http://www.census.gov/govs/www). From webpage select year of interest; select Vol. 4, No. 3 or 4, “Finances of County or Municipal and Township Governments” or downloadable spreadsheet or comma-separated-value files |
| 4. Municipal Fragmentation (Number of Subunit Governments within a Metro Area) | |
| 1. Number of local governments | Census of Governments (http://www.census.gov/govs/www). From webpage select year of interest; select Vol. 1, No. 1, “Government Organization” or downloadable spreadsheet or comma-separated-value files |
| 2. Metropolitan power diffusion index | Mitchell-Weaver, C., D. Miller, and R. Deal. 2000. “Multilevel Governance and Metropolitan Regionalism in the USA.”Urban Studies 37(5–6): 851–76. |