Report on the Census of Civil Service Agents
- Counts a civil service that grew by a little more than 70 percent, about 25,000 additional officials, since the comparison point of 1996.
- Breaks that growth down by age cohort: the 45-54 group up by 9,500, the 35-44 group by 8,900, the over-54s by 3,800 and the 25-34 group by only 3,550, so the service aged as it expanded.
- Records the age structure with the 25-34 group at 22.6 percent of staff and the over-54s at 12.6 percent, and finds 14 percent of women against 11.9 percent of men still working beyond 55.
- Maps recruitment geography, with 27 percent of officials born in the Ouest department against 5 percent in the Nord-Ouest and 4 percent in the Nippes, the two most modest departments.
- Records 29 percent of officials holding a university qualification at licence level or above, with 2 percent not answering the question.
- Finds a mismatch between grade and qualification, with category D covering execution work recruitable from the first cycle of fundamental school representing 55 percent of those counted while 12 percent of officials in those posts hold higher qualifications.
- Was carried out under an IDB-supported public sector human resources management project, which is what makes it a payroll control instrument rather than a statistical exercise.
OMRH's report on the census of civil service agents, December 2014, carried out under an IDB-financed project supporting public sector human resources management. A headcount is the instrument payroll control depends on, and this one is explicitly comparative: it reads 2014 against the previous census of 1996.
The headline is growth of a little more than 70 percent, about 25,000 additional officials. The composition of that growth matters more than its size: the 45-54 cohort grew by 9,500, the 35-44 cohort by 8,900, the over-54s by 3,800 and the 25-34 cohort by only 3,550. A service that expands by aging carries a different pension and succession problem from one that expands by recruiting young, and 14 percent of women against 11.9 percent of men are still working beyond 55.
The report also maps who the state recruits and how they are graded. Twenty-seven percent of officials were born in the Ouest department, against 5 percent in the Nord-Ouest and 4 percent in the Nippes. Twenty-nine percent hold a university qualification at licence level or above. And category D, which covers execution work recruitable from the first cycle of fundamental school, accounts for 55 percent of those counted while 12 percent of the officials in those posts are over-qualified for them, a mismatch between grade and qualification that a payroll reform has to resolve one way or the other.
How to cite
Office of Management and Human Resources (OMRH), 2014, Report on the Census of Civil Service Agents, https://omrh.gouv.ht/Media/2-DocumentsStrategiques/Rapport%20sur%20le%20Recensement%20des%20Agents%20de%20la%20Fonction%20Publique.pdf