  We compiled a sample of 95 AGNs serendipitously detected in the 3-20 keV band
at Galactic latitude |b|>10 during the RXTE slew survey (XSS, Revnivtsev et
al.), and utilize it to study the statistical properties of the local
population of AGNs, including X-ray luminosity function and absorption
distribution. We find that among low X-ray luminosity (Lx < 10^43.5 erg/s)
AGNs, the ratio of absorbed (characterized by intrinsic absorption in the range
10^22 cm^-2 < NH < 10^24 cm^-2) and unabsorbed (NH < 10^22 cm^-2) objects is
2:1, while this ratio drops to less than 1:5 for higher luminosity AGNs. The
summed X-ray output of AGNs with Lx > 10^41 erg/s estimated here is smaller
than the earlier estimated total X-ray volume emissivity in the local Universe,
suggesting that a comparable X-ray flux may be produced together by lower
luminosity AGNs, non-active galaxies and clusters of galaxies. Finally, we
present a sample of 35 AGN candidates, composed of the unidentified XSS
sources.
