Definition: State government

Category: SNA

The state government subsector consists of state governments that are separate institutional units plus those non-market NPIs that are controlled by state governments.

State governments are institutional units exercising some of the functions of government at a level below that of central government and above that of the governmental institutional units existing at a local level (SNA 2008, § 4.140 and 4.141). 

State governments are institutional units exercising some of the functions of government at a level below that of central government and above that of the governmental institutional units existing at a local level; they are institutional units whose fiscal, legislative and executive authority extends only over the individual "states" (often referred to as "provinces") into which the country as a whole may be divided (SNA 1993, § 4.124). http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/SNA2008.pdf United Nations, System of National Accounts (SNA) 1993, United Nations, New York, 1993