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Number of employees at public sector organisations

A full account of the number of employees (Full Time Equivalent) that each public service organisation in Aotearoa has reported for each financial year. The data could be collected at the end or at the beginning of each financial year, e.g. the 30th June or the 1st July. Use the definition that the PSC provides as to which organisations are part of 'The Public Sector' https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/system/system-architecture-and-design/how-the-public-sector-is-organised/ The data should go back 10 years from now, so from 2013 to be able to see developments over time and be presented in an Excel sheet, either as one combined file or as one file per organsiation.

Transparency and certainty what the number of employees of public sector organisations really as, as this is a hotly debated topic at the moment. Showing it over the last 10 years and for different organisations allows for more nuanced research and analysis of how staffing numbers have truly developed, and in what functional areas developments may have differed.

Providing full transparency for everyone n New Zealand, and for academics and researchers specifically who want to track and understand the developments of public administration through on data.


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Public Service Commission

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Kia ora, Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission collects this data from Public Service departments and departmental agencies only and not from the wider public service sector. How the public sector is organised - https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/system/system-architecture-and-design/how-the-public-sector-is-organised/ Attached is the excel data file for FTEs by department 2013-2023. We also publish this information on our website, see Guidance: https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/research-and-data/guidance-data-drilldown-and-technical-guidance/ We do publish other ‘wider sector’ data e.g., Education/Health/SOEs etc but this is at sector level, not at individual agency level. Here’s the link to the wider public sector viz: https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/research-and-data/workforce-data-public-sector-composition/workforce-data-workforce-size/#:~:text=located%C2%A0here.-,The%20composition%20of%20the%20wider%20public%20sector,-The%20public%20sector If you require FTE information for agencies in the wider public sector, please contact them directly. Contact us for data Requests: sit_data_requests@publicservice.govt.nz Te Parongo Rautaki | Strategic Information Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission

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