Population of the Federal Public Service

About the Data

When reading the table below, the following information applies:

• Source of Information: Regional Pay System as of March 31st of each year.
• The Federal Public Service (FPS) consists of two population segments: the Core Public Administration (CPA) and Separate agencies (SA).
• CPA departments and agencies are named in schedules I and IV of the Financial Administration Act. The Treasury Board is the employer of this segment of the FPS.
• Separate agencies are named in Schedule V of the Act. Separate agencies conduct their own negotiations with and set their own classification levels for their employees.
• Included in this information are:
  • Active employees of all employment tenures (Indeterminate, Term, Casual and Student)
  • Governor-in-Council appointees
  • Deputy Ministers
  • Federal Judges
• Excluded from this information are:
  • Inactive employees (i.e. employees on leave without pay)
  • Ministers' exempt staff
  • Employees locally engaged outside of Canada
  • RCMP Regular Force members
  • RCMP temporary civilian Force members
  • Canadian Forces members
• Population counts for the following separate agencies are not included because their employee information is not available in the Regional Pay System:
  • Canadian Security Intelligence Service
  • National Capital Commission
  • Canada Investment and Savings
  • Canadian Forces Non-Public Funds
  • Security Intelligence Review Committee

Snapshot of Employment Numbers in the Federal Public Service
(as of March 31 each year)

Year	Population of the Federal Public Service	Population of the Core Public Administration	Population of Separate Agencies	Canadian Population (Statistics Canada) CANSIM Series V1 (1st Quarter)
* StatCan Quarterly Demographic Estimate: for January 2012.
2000	211,925	152,069	59,856	30,525,872
2001	223,933	161,505	62,428	30,824,441
2002	237,251	170,779	66,472	31,172,522
2003	242,737	174,581	68,156	31,476,734
2004	244,158	177,136	67,022	31,776,075
2005	243,971	184,083	59,888	32,077,339
2006	249,932	189,280	60,652	32,394,898
2007	254,622	192,683	61,939	32,739,308
2008	263,114	200,575	62,539	33,113,330
2009	274,370	209,523	64 847	33,527,199
2010	282,955	216,571	66,384	33,930,830
2011	282,352	217,224	65,128	34,278,406
2012	278,092	212,028	66,064	34,670,352*

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Available formats

Data file	Description
Population of the Federal Public Service (XLS version – 15 KB)	This data presents population counts for the Federal Public Service (i.e. all departments and agencies governed by the Financial Administration Act (FAA) Schedules I, IV and V) from March 31st, 2000 to March 31st, 2012.

Glossary of Key Terms

To assist you with your analysis of Federal Public Service human resources data, we have compiled a glossary of key terms that are used in many of the Office of the Chief Human Resources Officer's (OCHRO) demographic snapshots and reports. This glossary has been developed to help provide a common language across OCHRO's demographic snapshots and reports.