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Public sector workforce as percentage of total employment

 

Source: Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) – The public sector workforce: past, present and future

Notes:

  • The discontinuity in data at 1991 exists due to differences caused by the changed methodology for calculating public sector employment post 1991.

 

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