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State and Local Governments Employ
More Than 15 Million, Census Bureau Reports
State and local governments employed 15.4 million "full-time equivalent"
workers in 2001, a 2 percent increase over 2000, according to the Commerce
Department's Census Bureau.
Of that total, local governments reported 11.2 million full-time
equivalent employees and state governments employed 4.2 million. (The
number of full-time equivalent employees is equal to the number of hours
worked by part-time employees divided by the standard number of hours for
a full-time employee. The result is then added to the number of full-time
employees.)
The tabulations from the 2001 Annual Survey of State and Local Government
Employment and Payroll show that most full-time equivalent employees
worked in education (8 million), hospitals (922,000) and police protection
(885,000). Other employment categories covered were corrections, streets
and highways, public welfare, health, judicial-legal, financial
administration and fire protection.
As with all surveys, the data are subject to sampling variability, as
well as nonsampling errors. Sources of nonsampling error include errors of
response, nonreporting and coverage. Measures of sampling variability,
presented as relative standard errors, are shown in the tables.
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