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Employment in public corporations also grew by 1,000 over the three months, according to the update, Public sector employment. Overall, there are now 313,000 fewer public sector employees than in the fourth quarter of 2011. However, this fall is affected by the change in the status of English colleges in the second quarter of 2012, which resulted in 196,000 employees being reclassified from the public to the private sector.
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