Skip to main content

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

Personnel of the catalan public administrations. By type of administration and sex Catalonia. 2021
Generalitat de Catalunya Local administration Universities Parliamentary bodies & Independent orgs. Total
Men 75,619 48,136 13,368 232 137,355
Women 152,497 51,159 13,485 319 217,460
Total 228,116 99,295 26,853 551 354,815
Source: Ministry of the Presidency.
Notes:
Generalitat de Catalunya: includes the public sector.
Local administration: does not include consortiums or foundations.
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: July 14, 2023.

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.
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.

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.