Civil Service Statistics data browser (2021)

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

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Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Disability Ethnicity Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared disabled Asian 785 685 22300 21050
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared disabled Black 465 420 23710 23210
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared disabled Chinese 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared disabled Mixed 295 265 22370 21010
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared disabled Other ethnicity 70 65 22350 21010
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared disabled Undeclared 600 530 22270 21010
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared disabled Unknown 425 360 22240 21140
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared disabled White 12880 11280 21860 21010
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared non-disabled Asian 6370 5610 22170 21010
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared non-disabled Black 3125 2915 24050 23500
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared non-disabled Chinese 215 195 22130 21050
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared non-disabled Mixed 1390 1285 23180 21430
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared non-disabled Other ethnicity 425 385 23410 21590
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared non-disabled Undeclared 2445 2145 22230 21010
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared non-disabled Unknown 3315 2920 22210 21010
In post 2021 AA/AO Declared non-disabled White 71260 63935 22350 21010
In post 2021 AA/AO Undeclared Asian 360 305 22860 21050
In post 2021 AA/AO Undeclared Black 295 270 26710 25620
In post 2021 AA/AO Undeclared Chinese 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2021 AA/AO Undeclared Mixed 125 115 24460 22680
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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.
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.
Disability Self reported disability.
“Undeclared” accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their disability status and “Unknown” accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their disability status.
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).