One other oddity of the public/private sector classification is that the
whole of post-16 education, including higher education, is classified as
private sector.
This includes FE and all Universities.
Local authority provided adult and community education might just be
regarded as public sector, but, according to ONS, one of the reasons for
changing LFS responses on industrial classifications to the IDBR is that
people in places such as further education misperceive themselves as working
in the public sector, as do many in outsourced parts of local government.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Thomas [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:46
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: PUBLIC OR PRIVATE?
I don't want to appear humourless, but feel the need to explain that meeting
on Monday is about statistics not accountants.
Individual firms like WorldCom and Enron suffer when their shady acounting
practices become apparent. Whole countries suffer when their national
accounts tell a story of economic weakness and they suffer even more if
there is a belief that their accounts are fiddled in some way or other.
It is good that ONS volunteered to 'set the record straight' on the
classification of British Rail in the national accounts as belonging to the
private sector. But it is also good to that Jean Shaoul, one of the
leading critics of the Private Finance Initiative, has agreed to speak. She
will no doubtless point to some of consequences of government policies that
favour private over public investment. It should be noted that governments
follow such policies partly because it makes the national accounts look
healthier.
In other words the meeting on Monday is about real-world problems, not about
jokes that trivialise statistics.
Ray Thomas, Social Sciences, Open University
Tel: 01908 679081 Fax 01908 550401
Email: [log in to unmask]
35 Passmore, Milton Keynes MK6 3DY
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