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

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.

Parliamentary entities and independent bodies

Group made up of independent bodies stipulated in the Statute, such as the Catalan Data Protection Authority, independent bodies with public functions, the Catalan Audiovisual Council, the Public Audit Office for Catalonia, the Catalan Ombudsman and the Parliament of Catalonia.

University

Institution with a legal personality that develops its functions autonomously and provides the public higher education service through research, teaching and studying.

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.