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Labour Inspection says there are 4.6m private employees, Statistics Institute says 3.23m. Who should we believe?

Autor: Adelina Mihai

21.12.2010, 00:09 15

The latest statistics on the number of employees comes fromLabour Inspection Authority, which counted 4.6 million activeemployment contracts in the first nine months of the year based ondata reported only by private employers. As of the same date, theNational Statistics Institute (INS) counted only 3.23 millionprivate sector employees.


Four institutions subordinated to the Government - the INS, theFinance Ministry, Labour Inspection and the Trade Registry -centralise data on the number of employees in Romania, both in thepublic sector and in the private sector, but each of them reportdifferent data. Who should we believe?
"The best statistics as far as the number of employees is concernedis the annual statistics put together by the INS (in October i.e.),not the monthly one. They use the Eurostat methodology andcentralise data on salaried employees who actually worked, becausethere are also those who spent 90 days on medical leave and whocontinue to receive their salary," says Gheorghe Gherghina,secretary of state in the Finance Ministry.

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