Direct expenditure
All expenditure except that classified as intergovernmental. It includes "direct
current expenditure" (salaries, wages, fees, and commissions and purchases of supplies,
materials, and contractual services) and "capital outlays" (construction and purchase
of equipment, land, and existing structures). Capital outlays are included for the year
when the direct expenditure is made, regardless of how the funds are raised (for
example, by bond issue) or when they are paid back.
Full time employees
All persons employed on a full time basis, including all full time temporary or
seasonal workers who were employed during this pay period.
Full time equivalent employment
A statistical measure that estimates the number of full time employees that could have
been employed if the reported number of hours worked by part time employees had been
worked by full time employees.
Intergovernmental expenditure
The sum of payments from one government to another, including grants?in?aid, shared
revenues, payments in lieu of taxes, and amounts for services performed by one
government for another on a reimbursable or cost?sharing basis (for example, payments
by one government to another for boarding prisoners). It excludes amounts paid to other
governments for purchase of commodities, property, or utility services.
Judicial and legal services
Includes all civil and criminal courts and activities associated with courts such as
law libraries, grand juries, petit juries, medical and social service activities, court
reporters, judicial councils, bailiffs, and probate functions. It also includes the
civil and criminal justice activities of the attorneys general, district attorneys,
State's attorneys, and their variously named equivalents and corporation counsels,
solicitors, and legal departments with various names. It excludes legal units of
noncriminal justice agencies, whose functions may be performed by a legal services
department in other jurisdictions (such as a county counsel).
Justice employees
Justice employees are all persons on government payrolls, including: paid officials and
persons on paid leave; but excluding unpaid officials, persons on unpaid leave,
pensioners, and contractors.
Justice expenditure
Includes only external cash payments made from any source of funds, including any
payments financed from borrowing, fund balances, intergovernmental revenue, and other
current revenue. It excludes any intragovernmental transfers and noncash transactions,
such as the provision of meals or housing of employees. It also excludes retirement of
debt, investment in securities, extensions of loans, or agency transactions. Total
expenditures for all government functions do include interest payments on debt, but the
justice expenditure data do not.
Justice functions
Include three primary categories: police protection, judicial and legal services, and
corrections for both justice expenditures and employment variables.
Payroll
Gross one month payroll before deductions and includes salaries, wages, fees, and
commissions paid to employees.
Police protection
The function of enforcing the law, preserving order, and apprehending those who violate
the law, whether these activities are performed by a city police department, sheriff's
department, State police, or Federal law enforcement agency such as the FBI or the Drug
Enforcement Administration. Private security police are outside the scope of the survey.
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