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The project on employment in the public domain

The project on employment in the public domain. OECD (GOV) Directorate of Public Governance and Territorial development. Public Employment: an important but under-measured field.

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The project on employment in the public domain

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  1. The project on employment in the public domain OECD (GOV) Directorate of Public Governance and Territorial development

  2. Public Employment: an important but under-measured field • The public governance committee of the OECD has mandated GOV to start developing comparable data and indicators of good governance and efficient public services • Within the framework of this project, GOV is seeking to develop a comparative study on employment levels in the public domain • Public employment is one of the most important vectors of reforms in the public sector: employment levels are both essential variable inputs for governments, and one of their most important vectors of internal reforms • GOV gets constant requests for data. They are used in many studies on the public sector • Size of government: quantitative data (numbers of employees, skilled staffs, remuneration levels,…), • Mode of operandi of government : qualitative data (human resource management, institutional arrangement,…) • Public employment data attract much attention

  3. Many sources but many problems of country coverage and scope • Many sources of quantitative data exist. Analysts at OECD, in governments and elsewhere have mainly relied on: • Data from national sources • The industrial classification (ISIC) data • National Accounts data • but their scope and country coverage pose some problems: • National sources are detailed but based on national definitions which are largely incomparable across countries • The ISIC is not detailed enough and cut across the national account concepts • The national accounts sector data constitute a valid benchmark, but the country coverage is not yet complete. They are not detailed enough, and do not cover all of the public sector

  4. Two very useful initiatives for our work • We would like to strongly support two of this working party’s initiatives: • The “business sector questionnaire” (item 23) is collecting employment data on the basis of an institutional approach 2) (item 20) More data should become available that will make the following boundaries clearer: • the public enterprises and other units in the corporate sectors • The boundaries of the public enterprises and the sector of General Government • These initiatives are very useful to GOV: • Data are meant to be consistent with financial flows data • They can serve as benchmark for more detailed data from other sources

  5. Future database of the project on employment in the public domain, collected by GOV • A governance point of view • Consistency with the concepts of national accounts • Institutional divisions of General government • Employment in public enterprises • Other parts of the public domain, in particular in the sector of non profit institutions serving households, and the sector of (quasi-)corporations • Sufficient levels of details • Uniform methods of measurement • To have more comparable measures across countries

  6. Sectors and institutional units considered…

  7. A project with minor costs • A project with minor costs for the countries: • No need for new data sources • The project will rely only on existing data sources (2 or 3) • For most countries, GOV can identify the survey sources from which government will compile the data • No data will be requested from national accountants: • The respondents will be employment statisticians • Members of the WPNA may just be indirectly asked when data will diverge between sources.

  8. The process of the project • GOV intends to have the project fully peer reviewed by an Expert Group • The questionnaire will be sent to the Employment Statisticians • The first results will be available in the third quarter of 2006

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