Description Data regarding Government Employment by Category: Civil Service, Educational Service and Security Forces.
Method Processing of administrative data regarding Government employees. The administrative data files are obtained on a monthly basis from the Treasury of the Republic and refer to the number of persons that were paid in the current month, irrespective of the period and duration of employment.
Data Coverage Government employment includes the Civil Service, Educational Service and Security Forces staff.
Civil Service includes employees of the Ministries, Departments and Services.
Educational Service includes the employees of school units and the staff of the Cyprus Productivity Center and the Higher Hotel Institute of Cyprus.
Security Forces include the Police Service, Fire Service and the National Guard staff.
In all three categories the employees are classified in permanent employees, employees with contracts of indefinite and definite duration and hourly paid workers (regular, casual and seasonal staff).
The members of the House of Representatives are not included in the data.
Data Availability Government Employment by Category is announced with a relevant Press Release. The data are updated on the online database CYSTAT-DB on CYSTAT's web Portal. Data are available in the form of predefined tables, from 2009 until December 2021.
Comparability Over Time As from January 2024 the classification for permanent and casual staff was discontinued. CYSTAT has adjusted the structure of government personnel to permanent, employees with contracts of indefinite duration, employees with contracts of definite duration and hourly paid workers. Therefore, there is a break in the series and data from previous months are not comparable.
Principal Variables Government Employment data: Number of government employees by category (Civil Service, Educational Service, Security Forces) and employment status (permanent employees, employees with contracts of indefinite and definite duration and hourly paid workers).
Classification Systems No statistical classification system is used.
Legal Framework There is no relevant legal obligation. Statistics are produced for national purposes.