Federal Employment Statistics

2002 Publication of Employment by Geographic Area

APPENDIX I
POPULATION COVERAGE, SURVEY CHANGES & DEFINITIONS

POPULATION COVERAGE

This survey publication covers all Federal civilian employees as of December 31, 2002, except for the following agencies and groups of employees (some exempt by law from personnel reporting requirements for reasons of security):

1. Central Intelligence Agency
2. National Security Agency
3. Defense Intelligence Agency
4. National Imagery and Mapping Agency
5. Army / Air Force Exchange Service
6. Consolidated Metropolitan Technical Personnel Center
7. Defense Career Management and Support Agency
8. Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
9. Defense Counterintelligence Field Activity
10. Seasonal employees (except Department of Defense Education Activity) due to their variation in numbers throughout the year. The 26,897 seasonal employees excluded from the December 2002 geographic survey were in the following agencies: 9,316 Treasury; 7,084 Agriculture; 5,873 Interior; 1,384 Navy; 1,265 Army; and 1,975 in other agencies.

The Office of Management and Budget determined that the Public Health Service's Commissioned Corps are military employees and not civilian employees. Therefore, Commissioned Corps will no longer be listed here as not reporting to the geographic survey.

SURVEY CHANGES

Agency changes between December 2000 and December 2002 are listed below.

New Agencies

1. Commission on Ocean Policy (part of Legislative Branch)
2. Delta Regional Authority
3. Pentagon Force Protection Agency
4. (part of Other Defense Agencies)
5. United States-China Security Review Commission (part of Legislative Branch)
6. Vietnam Education Foundation
7. White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance
8. Transportation Security Administration (part of the Department of Transportation) is a new subelement which had 68,680 employees.

Terminated Agencies

1. National Education Goals Panel
2. Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States
3. Trade Deficit Review Commission
4. This list excludes four agencies that came and went between the 2000 and 2002 geographic survey.

Agency Title Changes

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council became the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. One agency summarized under Other Defense Activities also had a title change.

State, U.S. Territory, or Foreign Country coverage changed to add Yugoslavia and to drop Serbia and Montenegro.

County or Independent City coverage had two changes from the previous survey. The independent city (county-equivalent) of Clifton Forge, Virginia reverted to town status effective July 1, 2001; Clifton Forge is now an incorporated place within Alleghany County, rather than a separate county-equivalent surrounded by Alleghany County. Broomfield County, Colorado was created from parts of Adams, Boulder, Jefferson, and Weld Counties effective November 15, 2001; the boundaries of Broomfield County reflect the boundaries of Broomfield city legally in effect on November 15, 2001.

Metropolitan Area. The Office of Management and Budget issued revised statistical definitions for metropolitan areas effective June 30, 1999, and these were the definitions still effective for the December 31, 2002 survey. There are 337 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs). For statistical analysis, 76 of the MSAs are combined into the 19 Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Areas (CMSAs).

Pay System changes during 2001-2002 were new and terminated pay plans in the "Other" pay system category as listed below:

New Pay Plans

1. AA - Administrative Appeals Judges
2. EN - National Nuclear Security Administration Ed Service Only (for use by Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration only)
3. HU - Haskell Indian Nations University demonstration project (for Department of Interior's use only)
4. IR - Internal Revenue Service Broadband Classification and Pay Systems Positions Only (for Department of Treasury's Internal Revenue Service only)
5. NB - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Only (for Department of Treasury's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency only)
6. SK - SEC employees formerly under the GS, GM, and EZ pay plans (for Securities and Exchange Commission only)
7. SO - SEC employees formerly under the ES pay plan (for Securities and Exchnage Commission only)
8. SV - Transportation Security Administration employees other than Executives (for Department of Transportation's Transportation Security Administration only)
9. SW - Transportation Security Administration Executives (for Department of Transportation's Transportation Security Administration only)

Terminated Pay Plans

1. CZ - Canal Area General Schedule-type positions
2. SZ - Canal Area Special Category-type positions
3. WZ - Canal Area Wage System-type positions
4. TW - Bureau of Engraving and Printing and U.S. Mint Police in Washington, DC, Only (for Treasury Department's Bureau of Engraving and Printing and U.S. Mint only)

U.S. Citizenship coverage was unchanged from the previous survey.

Work Schedule coverage was unchanged from the previous survey.

DEFINITIONS

Effective Date. Most data in this report are as of December 31, 2002.

Agency. For this report, an agency is any administration, authority, board, commission, committee, conference, corporation, council, department, foundation, independent agency, office, or tribunal whose civilian employees are paid from appropriated funds, and for whom a valid two-digit alphabetic identifying code exists (assigned by U.S. Office of Personnel Management when new agency is staffed). Although some departments refer to their major subelements as "agencies," these subelements are not separately classed as agencies in this report. Subelement data are available in this report only for the Department of Defense and for the special analysis of the seasonal workforce.

Geographic Area. Employment data are based on where employees work (duty location). OPM does not collect data on employee place of residence. Agencies report place of employment using standard geographic location codes defined by the General Services Administration. These codes reflect Federal Information Processing Standards issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the Department of Commerce. This report includes the location of Unspecified State. About two-thirds (62 percent) of the "unspecified" State data are the employees of the Judicial Branch located outside the Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. Over one-third (36 percent) of the "unspecified" State data are the employees of the Justice Department's Federal Bureau of Investigation which, for employee security reasons, does not report duty locations outside the Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV MSA.

This report presents data by State, U.S. territory, and foreign country. U.S. territories refer to all outlying areas of the United States, including territories, commonwealths, protectorates, dependencies, etc. U.S. territories now include: American Samoa, Guam, Johnston Atoll, Midway Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Wake Island, and miscellaneous Pacific islands such as Baker, Howland, Jarvis, and Navassa Islands, Kingman Reef and Palmyra Atoll. No Federal civilian employment was reported from the miscellaneous Pacific Islands.

Table 5 shows detailed data by counties within States. Counties include county-equivalent areas such as Alaska boroughs, Alaska census areas, Louisiana parishes, and Virginia indepen-dent cities. The survey also collected data by city or place; those data are not published but are available from the survey manager.

Tables 2 and 4 present data by Metropolitan Statistical Area, an integrated economic and social unit with a recognized large population nucleus; these areas are defined in Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publication 8-6. There are 337 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) with a city of at least 50,000 population or an urbanized area with at least 50,000 population and a total metropolitan area population of at least 100,000 (75,000 in New England). For statistical analysis, 76 of the MSAs are combined into the 19 Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Areas (CMSAs) with more than one million population and meeting certain other specified requirements.

Pay System Category. This report presents employment by four categories called "pay systems": General Schedule, Wage, Postal Service, and a residual "Other" category. Each system represents a combination of two or more individual pay plans. The General Schedule system includes the General Schedule pay plan, the principal pay plan covering white-collar employees in the Federal Government, and the pay plan for employees covered by the Performance Management and Recognition System (PMRS) termination procedures. The Wage System encompasses most blue-collar employees and supervisors, generally paid at rates prevailing in the localities where they work. The Postal Service system covers all employees paid under postal pay schedules (plans), which includes all U.S. Postal Service and Postal Rate Commission employees. The remaining pay plans not included in one of these three major systems make up the "Other" category. Some examples are the Executive Schedule, the Senior Executive Service, pay plans for positions whose rates of pay are administra-tively determined, Foreign Service pay plans, and doctor and nurses schedules (pay plans) in the Department of Veterans Affairs.

U.S. Citizenship. Tables 6 and 7 show the U.S. citizenship of Federal civilian employees working overseas. Employees are identified as either U.S. citizens or noncitizens of the United States. Residents born in Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands have U.S. citizenship. Natives of American Samoa and Swains Island are not U.S. citizens but, as a group, owe permanent allegiance to the United States; they are identified as U.S. citizens in this report.

Work Schedule. Beginning with the 1979 survey, detailed work schedule information by agency on the Federal civilian workforce is available for States, counties, cities, and MSAs, although this report includes only a summary table. Work schedule identifies full-time, part-time, and intermittent employees, as defined below:

Full-time includes those employees regularly scheduled to work the number of hours and days required by the administrative workweek for their employment group or class. Most full-time employees have an administrative workweek of five days of eight hours each.

Part-Time includes those employees regularly scheduled to work less than the number of hours and days required by the administrative workweek for their employment group or class. Those part-time employees hired before April 8, 1979, could be scheduled for any number of hours less than 40 per week. Beginning April 8, 1979, permanent part-time employees could not be scheduled for more than 32 hours per week and could be scheduled for less than 16 hours per week only under unusual circumstances.

Intermittent includes those employees employed on an irregular or occasional basis, whose hours or days are not on a prearranged schedule, and who receive pay only for the time actually employed or for services actually performed.

Please note that seasonal employees, except for the Department of Defense Education Activity, are not included in the main geographic survey tables. Seasonal employees work less than 12 months a year on an annually recurring basis; seasonal employees may work a full-time, part-time, or intermittent work schedule when on duty.

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