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as the Police Force, under the control of the Ministry of Defense (80,000), the National Guard (15,000), and the Home Guard (15,200).

GDP and Consolidated Central Government wages and salaries are for 1994 and are taken from IMF Government Finance Statistics Yearbook, 1995. Data on wages in manufacturing (monthly basis) is taken from the United Nations' Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 1995 and refer to 1993.

# Thailand

Unemployment information is for 1995 and is taken from IMF Report No. SM 96/155 of June 28, 1996 and relates to 1995 (projected). Data on paid employment in non-agricultural activities are taken from the ILO's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995 and are for 1994.

Central and local government data are staff estimates based on information provided by Embassy of Thailand, several Public Expenditure Reviews and the Country Economist of Thailand, Sudhir Shetty. They are for the year 1992. Data on education and health are taken from UNESCO Yearbook 1995 and WHO Yearbook, 1993 and relate to the year 1993. Military employment data do not include paramilitary forces, e.g., Thahan Phran (18,500), the National Security Volunteer Corps (50,000) the Marine Police and Police Aviation (2,500 and 500 respectively), the Border patrol police (40,000) and the Provincial police (50,000).

GDP estimate is from IMF Report No. 96/83 of August 1996 and relates to fiscal year 1995/96. Wages and salaries are taken from IMF Report No. 96/83 of August 1996 and relate to 1995/96 (projections). Average wages in Manufacturing are taken from IMF Report No. 96/83 of August 1996 and relate to 1995.

Vanuatu Data on paid employment in non-agricultural activities are taken from the United Nation's Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 1995 and refer to 1989. Unemployment data are taken from the United Nation's Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 1995 and refer to 1989.

Population estimate is taken from Social Indicators of Development and relates to 1994. Labor force estimate is taken from IMF Staff Country Report No. 06/75 of August 1996.

Vietnam Data on paid employment in non-agricultural activities are taken from the United Nation's Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 1995 and refer to 1993.

Data on Employed Labor Force, Education and Public Health employment are taken from Vietnam: Economic Report on Industrialization and Industrial Policy of October 17, 1995.

Consolidated Central Government wages and salaries are for 1994 and are taken from IMF Research Assistant for Vietnam.

# Eastern Europe and Former USSR

Albania Data on paid employment in non-agricultural activities are taken from the ILO's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995 and are for 1991.

Central Government, Non Central Government, Education and Health employment is taken from Country Economic Memorandum (draft) of September 3, 1996 and relates to June 1996. (See Annex 5). Military employment data include 22,800 conscripts, but do not include personnel in paramilitary units, e.g., the Militia (estimated at more than 20,000), under the authority of the Ministry of Interior.

Data on GDP at market prices, as well as Consolidated Central Government wages and salaries, are for 1995 and are taken from IMF memo: _Albania: notes on fiscal situation,_ dated April 3, 1996.

# **Bulgaria**

Data on paid employment in non-agricultural activities are taken from the ILO's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995 and are for 1994.

Central Government employment is estimated, on the basis of the information on IMF Report No. SM/95/306 of December 11, 1994 and relate to 1993 and the information on the other sectors of government, as the residual government employment. Education and Health employment are from IMF Report No. SM 93/200 and relate to 1992. Local employment comes from Local Governments in the CEE and CIS: an antholooy of descriptive papers. 1994, published by the Institute of Local Government and Public Services in Budapest, Hungary. Local data includes 15,967 civil servants employed by municipality mayors' offices and 9,446 civil servants employed by settlements' mayors' offices and relates to 1993. State-owned enterprise employment is taken from IMF Report No. 95/306 of December 11,1995 and relates to 1994. Military employment data include 51,300 conscripts, about 22,300 centrally controlled. The data do not include personnel of paramilitary units, i.e., the Border guards (12,000), the Security Police (4,000) and the Railway and Construction troops (18,000).

GDP is taken from World Tables 1995 and is an estimate for 1993. Data on Consolidated Central Government employment and salaries is taken from Government Finance Statistics, 1995 and is for 1993. Average Government wage estimate is taken from IMF Report 95/306 of December 11,1995 and relates to 1993.

Data on wages in manufacturing (monthly basis) are taken from the International Labor Office's Yearbook of Labor Statistics 1995 and refer to 1994.