(2) Civilian Central Government (excluding education, health, and police):
includes central executive and legislative administration in departments directly
dependent on the Head of State or the Parliament, together with all other ministries and
administrative departments, including autonomous agencies. Education, health, and
police employees paid by central government are accounted for separately.
(3) Subnational Government (excluding education, health, and police):
encompasses all government administration employees who are not directly funded by
the central government. It includes municipalities, as well as regional, provincial, or state
(in federal systems) employment. The distinction between central and subnational
government employment is budgetary, not geographic. If central government agencies are
geographically dispersed, but without changing their ultimate sources of finance, then the
staff in those agencies are included in the central government employees.
(4) Health employees: covers medical and paramedical staff (doctors, nurses,