The number of employees in the public sector went down by morethan 36,000 from late 2008 through February 2010, said GheorgheGherghina, state secretary with the Finance Ministry on Fridayduring an "extraordinary" press conference held after ZiarulFinanciar wrote that the number of public administration employeeshad gone up in the past year based on National Statistics Institutedata.
The chairman of the National Statistics Institute Vergil Voineaguand Gheorghe Gherghina tried to explain how both sets of data couldbe correct at the same time, blaming everything on differentmethodologies.
INS published a survey on the salary incomes in October 2009 onThursday, which showed the number of salaried employees in publicadministration had gone up by 26,000 people. The number ofemployees in public administration stood at 360,000 in October 2009compared with 334,000 in October 2008.
According to Gherghina's data, 1,362,463 public positions werefilled in February 2010, compared with 1,398,867 in December2008.
"The INS and Finance Ministry data are not comparable. The datafrom the Finance Ministry are equally accurate, but we are talkinga different scope here. It is about good quality data," said VergilVoineagu.
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