Employment Numbers and Compensation Costs: Changes over the Past Ten Years

This chapter draws on data gathered in the 2006 OECD survey entitled Comparison of Employment in the Public Domain (CEPD). The CEPD survey aimed at providing data on government employment that are comparable across countries and consistent with the classification of the General Government sector of the Systems of national Accounts, and at putting employment data in the perspectives of the wider production costs of goods and services in the public domain (that include goods and services funded by General Government and produced either by General Government or private entities). The full description of the methodology and of the data is available in a publication issued in 2008 as part of the series of OECD Working Papers on Public Governance: “Employment in Government in the Perspective of the Production Costs of Goods and Services in the Public Domain”.