Civil Service Statistics data browser (2023)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Sexual_orientation / Ethnicity

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Status	Year	Responsibility_level_ungrouped	Sexual_orientation	Ethnicity	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2023	AA	Heterosexual / straight	Asian	530	470	22680	23000
In post	2023	AA	Heterosexual / straight	Black	420	395	24030	23500
In post	2023	AA	Heterosexual / straight	Mixed	150	140	22560	23230
In post	2023	AA	Heterosexual / straight	Other ethnicity	40	40	23570	23340
In post	2023	AA	Heterosexual / straight	Undeclared	75	70	22230	22920
In post	2023	AA	Heterosexual / straight	Unknown	150	135	22560	22520
In post	2023	AA	Heterosexual / straight	White	10145	9205	21930	22010
In post	2023	AA	LGBO	Asian	20	15	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	AA	LGBO	Black	10	10	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	AA	LGBO	Mixed	25	25	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	AA	LGBO	Other ethnicity	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	AA	LGBO	Undeclared	10	10	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	AA	LGBO	Unknown	10	10	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	AA	LGBO	White	675	640	22500	23230
In post	2023	AA	Undeclared	Asian	65	55	22400	23000
In post	2023	AA	Undeclared	Black	30	25	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	AA	Undeclared	Mixed	10	10	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	AA	Undeclared	Other ethnicity	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2023	AA	Undeclared	Undeclared	250	230	21400	21380
In post	2023	AA	Undeclared	Unknown	65	60	21940	22520

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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 2023-07-26, with GIT d545f65.

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.
	Four 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, 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_ungrouped	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_ungrouped shows the mapped grades at a higher level of detail, however not all Government Departments / bodies have distinct grades that map exactly to these levels so figures should be considered as approximations and treated with caution.
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.
Sexual_orientation	Self reported sexual orientation.
	"Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their sexual orientation and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their sexual orientation.
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).