Document Type

Report

Publication Date

4-1984

Abstract

A 1983 study found that patterns of computer use among small local governments (cities under 50,000 and counties under 100 ,000) in seven plains and mountains states were not substantially different from the patterns of computing detected in earlier studies of larger governments. The 1983 study also found that, among other things, basic "housekeeping" functions were the most frequently automated activities; that computer adoption was associated with governmental size, form, type, and metropolitan status; and that most governments owned in-house minicomputers.

Comments

This paper was prepared for presentation at the 1984 Annual Conference of the American Society for Public Administration, in Denver, Colorado, April, 1984.

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