Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

Data preview: All civil servants / Function_of_post / Responsibility_level_grouped / Ethnicity

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Status Year Function_of_post Responsibility_level_grouped Ethnicity Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 Analysis AA/AO Asian 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Analysis AA/AO Black 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Analysis AA/AO Chinese [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 Analysis AA/AO Mixed 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Analysis AA/AO Other ethnicity [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 Analysis AA/AO Undeclared 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Analysis AA/AO Unknown 45 40 20940 20140
In post 2021 Analysis AA/AO White 125 120 21310 21050
In post 2021 Analysis EO Asian 55 55 27690 27680
In post 2021 Analysis EO Black 30 30 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Analysis EO Chinese [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 Analysis EO Mixed 20 15 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Analysis EO Other ethnicity [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2021 Analysis EO Undeclared 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Analysis EO Unknown 115 110 25990 25880
In post 2021 Analysis EO White 490 460 26200 25800
In post 2021 Analysis G6/G7 Asian 135 125 59230 58820
In post 2021 Analysis G6/G7 Black 30 30 57080 54100
In post 2021 Analysis G6/G7 Chinese 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2021 Analysis G6/G7 Mixed 60 60 58100 55430
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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).
Responsibility_level_grouped With the exception of the centrally managed Senior Civil Service, government departments have delegated pay and grading. For statistical purposes departments are asked to map their grades to a common framework by responsibility level.
This table shows staff in their substantive responsibility level unless on temporary promotion in which case staff are recorded at the higher responsibility level.
Responsibility_level_grouped combines the mapped grades into five broad responsibility levels. This is the headline measure for responsibility level for the Civil Service and is consistent with the published National Statistics.
Function_of_post Functions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
The Department for Work and Pensions provided aggregated functions data for 2021, which are available in the Civil Service Statistics publication. However, figures in this browser are derived from individual level data and so are not available for this department in 2021.
Home Office, Welsh Government and Royal Fleet Auxiliary did not report any functions information for their employees.
Of the 20 bodies under the Scottish Government, 16 did not report any functions information for their employees.
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).