Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

Data preview: All civil servants / Ethnicity / Sex

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Status	Year	Ethnicity	Sex	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2021	Asian	Female	16320	14715	32230	28950
In post	2021	Asian	Male	12835	12470	33190	29290
In post	2021	Asian	Unknown	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2021	Black	Female	10050	9520	32370	30330
In post	2021	Black	Male	5540	5440	33470	31060
In post	2021	Black	Unknown	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2021	Chinese	Female	735	690	36940	32120
In post	2021	Chinese	Male	515	505	36630	32560
In post	2021	Chinese	Unknown	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2021	Mixed	Female	4815	4500	34200	30220
In post	2021	Mixed	Male	3450	3365	36650	31810
In post	2021	Mixed	Unknown	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2021	Other ethnicity	Female	1410	1305	35610	31060
In post	2021	Other ethnicity	Male	1180	1150	38440	33000
In post	2021	Other ethnicity	Unknown	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2021	Undeclared	Female	8545	7620	32370	28130
In post	2021	Undeclared	Male	12005	11545	36050	32100
In post	2021	Unknown	Female	33120	30620	31710	27570
In post	2021	Unknown	Male	33935	33095	33750	29290
In post	2021	Unknown	Unknown	20	20	[c]	[c]

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Notes: Summary figures are suppressed when information relates to less than 5 civil servants for FTE or Headcount, and less than 10 civil servants for median and mean salary (shown as [c]). Zero responses and salaries for less than 30 civil servants have been suppressed for GPDR special category data. FTE figures are not shown for entrants or leavers due to data quality concerns for these groups. Figures are rounded to the nearest 5, or £10 as appropriate.

Data source: All figures are aggregated from the Cabinet Office Annual Civil Service Employment Survey collection.

Version: Generated on 2023-02-14, with GIT 71a76ea.

Data column	Description
Status	Employment status of the civil servants.
	In post - includes staff that were in post on the reference date (31 March).
	New entrant CS - includes new entrants to the Civil Service over the year (1 April to 31 March).
	Leaver CS - includes leavers from the Civil Service over the year (1 April to 31 March). This includes employees who have an Unknown leaving cause.
	Leaver Dept. - includes leavers from the department over the year (1 April to 31 March), who did not leave the Civil Service.
	Five organisations do not report when their employees first entered the Civil Service and so entrants data for these organisations is not available . These are as follows: Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (excl. agencies), Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office Services, Defence Electronics and Components Agency, Scottish Forestry and Forest and Land Scotland. A further three organisations also could not provide entrants data in 2021. These are as follows: Department for International Development, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (excl. agencies) and Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
Year	Year of data collection (as at 31 March).
Sex	Self reported sex.
	“Unknown” accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
Ethnicity	Self reported ethnicity. “Undeclared” accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their ethnicity and “Unknown” accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their ethnicity.
	For consistency with Civil Service Statistics, ‘Chinese’ is shown separately in the 2021 figures, but counted within ‘Asian’ from 2022 onwards.
Headcount	Total number of civil servants (rounded to nearest 5).
FTE	Total full-time equivalent (FTE) employment numbers (rounded to nearest 5).
	FTE figures are not shown for entrants or leavers due to data quality concerns for these groups.
Mean_salary	Average salary (mean, rounded to nearest £10). For part-time employees, salaries represent the full-time equivalent earnings, while for full-time employees they are the actual annual gross salaries.
	These figures should be interpreted with caution when the total number of employees in a group is small, as they will tend to show more variability than larger groups (i.e. may be much higher or lower than can be explained by the data shown).
Median_salary	Median salary (rounded to nearest £10). For part-time employees, salaries represent the full-time equivalent earnings, while for full-time employees they are the actual annual gross salaries.
	These figures should be interpreted with caution when the total number of employees in a group is small, as they will tend to show more variability than larger groups (i.e. may be much higher or lower than can be explained by the data shown).