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Total Employment: 54,706
Government employment in January 2024 increased by 2,687 persons (5.2%) compared to the same month in 2023 and reached 54,706 persons. The increase is primarily attributed to an increase in Education Service staff (13.5%), mainly due to the abolition of the purchase of services scheme in the supporting programmes of the Ministry of Education, Sports and Youth from the 2023 - 2024 school year. The remaining staff categories, Civil Service, Security Forces and Hourly Staff, saw an increase of 0.8%, 2.8% and 1.8% respectively, compared to January 2023.
Compared to December 2023, the largest change was in the Security Forces staff (0.7% increase). Employment in other staff categories remained very close to December, 2023 levels.
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[TR] [TD]
Staff category
[/TD] [TD]Number of Persons
[/TD] [TD]% Change
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Jan 2023
[/TD] [/TD] [TD]Dec 2023
[/TD] [TD]Jan 2024
[/TD] [TD]Jan 2024/
Dec 2023
[/TD] [TD] [TD]Jan 2024/2023
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Public
Service
[/TD] [TD]17.396
[/TD] [TD]
17.585
[/TD] [TD]17.534
[/TD] [TD]-0.3%
[/TD] [TD]0.8%
[/TD] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Educational Service
[/TD] [TD]15.277
[/TD] [TD]
17.268
[/TD] [TD]17.344
[/TD] [TD]0.4%
[/TD] [TD]13.5%
[/TD] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Security Forces
[/TD] [TD]12.780
[/TD] [TD]
13.049
[/TD] [TD]13.141
[/TD] [TD]0.7%
[/TD] [TD]2.8%
[/TD] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Total
[/TD] [TD]45.453
[/TD] [TD]47.902
[/TD] [TD]
48.019
[/TD] [TD]0.2%
[/TD] [TD]5.6%
[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]
Hourly Staff
[/TD] [TD]6.566
[/TD] [TD]
6.644
[/TD] [TD]6.687
[/TD] [TD]0.6%
[/TD] [TD]1.8%
[/TD] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Total
[/TD] [TD]52.019
[/TD] [TD]
54.546
[/TD] [TD]54.706
[/TD] [TD]
0.3%
[/TD] [TD]5.2%
[/TD] [/TR]
Note:
From January 2024, the distinction between permanent and temporary staff will be abolished. The Office for National Statistics is realigning the structure of government staff into permanent, permanent employees (PTEs), fixed-term employees (FTEs) and hourly staff. The data with the new breakdown will be presented in the next release regarding Government Employment by category.
Methodological Information
Data Coverage
Government Employment includes: the Civil Service, Education Service, Security Forces and Hourly Government Workers. The Civil Service includes permanent and temporary employees of Ministries, Departments and Agencies. The Education Service includes permanent and temporary teaching staff serving in schools as well as staff of the Productivity Centre and the Higher Hotel Institute. The Security Forces include: the Police, the Fire Service and the National Guard. Hourly Staff includes regular, temporary and seasonal employees.
Data excludes Members of the House of Representatives (Members of Parliament and Representatives of Religious Groups).
Source of Data
The source of Government employment data is the General Accounting Office of the Republic. The data relate to persons who were paid in a given month regardless of the period and duration of employment.
For more information, interested parties can visit the Statistical Service Portal, under Labour Market, CYSTAT-DB (Database), Predefined Tables (Excel), Methodological Information or contact Ms. Maria Koussiis at 22602235 or mkkoushi@cystat.mof.gov.cy.
Please note that the Predefined Tables in Excel format include data up to December 2021. For data from January 2022 onwards, the update is done only in the CYSTAT-DB Database.
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