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Note: The Time Series Spreadsheets for Tables 1 and 3 of the December quarter 2006 issue have been reissued, on 3 April 2007, due to four series in each table having missing data from Aug-1983 to May-1989 inclusive.
This reissue does not affect any other part of the product release.

DECEMBER KEY FIGURES

			Nov 2006	Aug 2006 to Nov 2006	Nov 2005 to Nov 2006
			'000	% change	% change
PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYEES
	Trend estimates
		Commonwealth Government	264.2	1.2	4.2
		State Government	1 242.3	0.9	3.4
		Local Government	168.8	0.5	1.4
		Total Public Sector	1 675.3	0.9	3.3
	Seasonally Adjusted estimates
		Commonwealth Government	264.3	-9.7	4.1
		State Government	1 243.5	1.1	3.7
		Local Government	168.6	0.4	1.6
		Total Public Sector	1 676.4	-0.9	3.5

			Dec Qtr 2006	Sep Qtr 2006 to Dec Qtr 2006	Dec Qtr 2005 to Dec Qtr 2006
			$m	% change	% change
PUBLIC SECTOR GROSS EARNINGS
	Original estimates
		Commonwealth Government	4 554.2	13.2	9.4
		State Government	17 773.2	5.9	8.3
		Local Government	1 901.6	3.7	9.6
		Total Public Sector	24 229.0	7.0	8.6

Public sector employees

• From November 2005 to November 2006 the number of public sector employees increased by 54,000 (3.3%) to 1,675,300.
• In the same period the number of employees increased in Commonwealth government by 4.2%, state government by 3.4% and local government by 1.4%.

Original and seasonally adjusted estimates of Commonwealth and total public sector employees for May and August 2006 include temporary staff recruited by the ABS to conduct the 2006 Census of Population and Housing. For trend estimates, the impact of temporary ABS staff has been explicitly removed. For more information on trend estimates see paragraphs 21 to 25 of the Explanatory Notes.

INQUIRIES

For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070 or Eric May on Perth (08) 9360 5115.