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Direct expenditure
All expenditure except that classified as intergovernmental. It includes "direct
current expenditure" (salaries, wages, fees, 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. This includes paid
officials and persons on paid leave but excludes 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
Justice expenditure and employment variables that include three primary categories:
police protection, judicial and legal services, and corrections.
Payroll
Gross 1-month payroll before deductions. This 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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