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Table 1: All employees: gender by employment category, 31 December 2002 to 31 December 2021

Ongoing

December
Gender 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Men 55141 56989 55904 57687 60642 63053 62821 63482 64002 65132 64286 63187 58397 56702 56730 56280 53937 52628 53173 54551
Women 60421 64329 65422 71842 78034 83747 84637 86160 86804 88051 87035 86016 80164 78884 80141 80087 78314 77045 78198 81599
X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 50 58 73 134
Total 115570 121326 121337 129541 138689 146817 147477 149663 150830 153210 151352 149237 138597 135623 136916 136413 132301 129731 131444 136284

Non-ongoing

December
Gender 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Men 4067 3347 3118 3627 4393 4593 4133 4536 4870 5517 5235 5247 4958 5928 6049 5136 5425 5533 6276 6999
Women 6929 5320 5109 5707 6861 7390 6765 6887 7127 7862 7873 8087 7775 10145 10268 8349 9008 9249 10882 12385
X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 20 24 24 128
Total 10997 8669 8227 9334 11255 11986 10899 11426 11999 13381 13110 13337 12736 16079 16323 13488 14453 14806 17182 19512

Total

December
Gender 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Men 59208 60336 59022 61314 65035 67646 66954 68018 68872 70649 69521 68434 63355 62630 62779 61416 59362 58161 59449 61550
Women 67350 69649 70531 77549 84895 91137 91402 93047 93931 95913 94908 94103 87939 89029 90409 88436 87322 86294 89080 93984
X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 70 82 97 262
Total 126567 129995 129564 138875 149944 158803 158376 161089 162829 166591 164462 162574 151333 151702 153239 149901 146754 144537 148626 155796

Source: APSED

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