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Personnel of the catalan public administrations. By type of administration and association

Personnel of the catalan public administrations. By type of administration and association Catalonia Total
Generalitat de Catalunya Local administration Universities Parliamentary bodies & Independent orgs. Total
2022 243,762 103,206 26,900 574 374,442
2021 228,116 99,295 26,853 551 354,815
2020 223,873 91,914 26,412 481 342,680
2019 215,384 83,005 25,871 654 324,914
2018 212,956 89,583 25,212 636 328,387
2017 209,030 90,785 24,733 656 325,204
2016 202,401 95,988 24,507 635 323,531
2015 201,079 90,892 23,865 647 316,483
2014 200,922 90,185 23,420 650 315,177
2013 200,732 91,220 23,240 663 315,855
2012 202,940 91,425 24,079 676 319,120
2011 208,160 93,734 24,292 698 326,884
2010 205,347 94,234 24,678 715 324,974
2009 202,063 93,360 23,882 691 319,996
Source:
2009-2014: Ministry of Governance and Institutional Relations.
2015-2016: Ministry of Governance, Public Administrations and Housing.
2017-2019: Ministry for Digital Policy and Public Administration.
2020-2022: Ministry of the Presidency.
Notes:
Local administration: does not include consortiums or foundations.
Other directors: higher management and other directors.
Generalitat de Catalunya: includes the public sector.
The notable growth in local administration personnel compared to the previous year is due to the fact that Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona did not provide its data for the years 2019 and 2020, and thus the total number of employees for these two years had been underestimated.

Last update: March 1, 2024.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Local administration
Aggregate concept that includes information in reference to the governing administrations and bodies of local territorial entities (municipalities, counties and provinces), decentralised municipal entities, metropolitan entities and communities of municipalities, as well as independent administrations depending on any of them -autonomous bodies, public business entities, etc.
Senior official
Staff member who holds a political management position in the Administration, by virtue of an act of free appointment by the Generalitat de Catalunya, by proposal of the person in charge of the corresponding Ministry, or in the case of the Government Secretary, by virtue of an act of free appointment by the President.
Other executive
Staff member who holds a professional management position as an executive employee. In the case of the Generalitat de Catalunya, mainly in different public organisations of the ministerial network. In the case of local administrations, includes executive staff appointed by plenary session by proposal of the mayor or president of the corporation. In the case of public companies, includes staff members associated by some form of labour relation and that exercise executive duties, in the sense that they exercise separate duties with autonomy and responsibility, only limited by the criteria and instructions established by the institution's highest authority.
Casual employee
Staff member who serves functions of confidence or consultation to a senior official, by virtue of an act of free appointment by the senior official in question. In the case of the Generalitat de Catalunya, the number and ministerial distribution of these is limited by government dispositions, and dismissal is automatic on termination of the provision of services to the senior official who made the appointment.
Civil servant
Staff member who permanently provides professional services to the Public Administration by virtue of administrative appointment.
Interim
Staff member who temporarily provides professional services to the Public Administration by virtue of administrative appointment.
Indefinite employee
Staff member who provides professional services to the Public Administration by virtue of a labour contract, in general, for the provision of the services required for a profession or speciality on a stable and permanent basis.
Temporary employee
Staff member who provides professional services to the Public Administration by virtue of a labour contract, in general, for the provision of the services required for a profession or speciality for a limited period of time.
University
Institution with a legal personality that develops its functions autonomously and provides the public higher education service through research, teaching and studying.

Methodological aspects

The data on staff of Catalan public administrations is taken from the Ministry of the Presidency through the Technical Support and Studies Cabinet, in order to generate and foster the production of empirical, quantitative and qualitative data on public employment in Catalonia.

The Databank on Public Employment contains statistics since 2004 on the number of staff employed by Catalan Public Administrations: Generalitat de Catalunya, Local Administration, universities, parliamentary entities and independent bodies.