A note from the Public Finance and Economics Association, published on November 3, details the relationship between the number of civil servants and the number of inhabitants.
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The French are not equal before the public service. This is shown by a note published on 3 November by the President of the Public Finance and Economics Association (FIPECO), François Ecalle. To establish it, the magistrate of the Court of Auditors in availability used official data and calculated the “rate of administration”, the relationship between the number of civil servants and the number of inhabitants. Now, note Mr. Ecalle, “the distribution of public employment does not seem to correspond to the needs, and the principle of equality before the public service does not seem respected”.
Of course, he recognizes, the rate of administration is a “crude” indicator. It might be more relevant to take into account the time we put to go to the administration premises or the processing time. But it remains nevertheless “a simple and reliable criterion, which has some relevance”.
In 2019, the country’s administration rate averaged 73 civilian public agents per 1,000 population. This hides large differences according to the regions, and even more than one department on the other. If we exclude Overseas, the Ile-de-France and Corsica (more than 80 per cent of 1,000 for specific reasons), there remains a 15% gap between the most planned region. Public, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (75), and the one that has the least, the Loirelands (65). And in terms of departments, the deviations are much stronger: the range of administrative rates ranges from 46.5 to Ain to 94 in Haute-Vienne, or a ratio of two to one.
Disparities in the hospital
By ventilating the results according to the three public functions, Mr. Ecalle realized that local authority officers and those of the state are the best distributed. If Corsica and Overseas (where the number of territorial officials exceeds 1000), the ratio between the Landes (35) and Ain (17) is 2 to 1 . For state agents, outside Paris, where the rate of administration is 84, the report is 2.5 to 1 between Guyana (which has 44 civil servants per 1,000 inhabitants) and the Vendée (17 ) Finally, in terms of hospital officials, excluding overseas departments, the report is about 3 to 1 between Haute-Vienne (29) and Seine-et-Marne (9).
It is indeed the hospital agents who are distributed with the least equality. But the campaigns are not the most bad loties. In addition to the Haute-Vienne (29), therefore, the hollow has a rate of administration of 28 and combine, for example, of 26. It is in the departments of Ile-de-France (Paris put Apart from) that hospitals have the smallest numbers (from 9 to 10). In urban departments, Note Mr. Ecalle, are “large hospitals with high productivity and relatively few jobs, which are sometimes saturated”. Many small hospitals remain in rural areas, “with low productivity and relatively numerous workforce”. But the liberal health professionals are also fewer.