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The Australian Public Service Statistical Bulletin 2004–05 presents a summary of employment under the Public Service Act 1999 at June 2005 and during the 2004–05 financial year, as well as data for the past 15 years.
The data shows how the composition of the APS has changed over time, and provides an opportunity for assessing the impact of human resource (HR) policies on the structure of the Australian Public Service (APS). A more comprehensive statistical analysis of the APS is provided in the State of the Service Report 2004–05.
The main data source on APS employees is the APS Employment Database (APSED), which contains data extracted from agencies’ HR systems. The Australian Public Service Commission continues to work with agencies to improve the quality and timeliness of the data they provide to APSED. To ensure that sound conclusions can be drawn from the data, it is important that agencies assign a high priority to providing accurate and timely data to the Commission.
We would like to thank ComSuper for their assistance in a major project, which involved linking employees’ separate periods of service together to allow us to obtain more information on an individual’s APS work history.
Lynelle Briggs
Public Service Commissioner
December 2004
