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About Statistics Publications & Documents Information by Country

Since 1993, the Public Management Service (PUMA), recently integrated into the OECD Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate (GOV), has maintained the Public Sector Pay and Employment (PSPE) database. The growing interest for these statistics involves frequent and an increasing number of information requests concerning the PSPE data as well as the deployment of complementary data bases in some other international organisations. For example, the Eurostat and the World Bank put their efforts to gather similar data, while the Inter-American Development Bank has started their project of a new database. The "Statistics on Public Sector Employment" of the International Labour Organisation focuses on data concerning public sector manpower.

For the 2002 update, the Secretariat sent a questionnaire last April. This year, the questionnaire has been modified in order to obtain the historical series needed for comparisons between the current situation and 1990 Public Sector Employment and Pay. This effort will be continued next year thanks to a new data management system which will allow a perfect interaction between the questionnaires sent to Member countries and the OECD database. We thus hope to increase data quality, reliability of the historical series, relevance of the notes, and also to simplify the management of the sources.