Background

To encourage re-use of Public Service workforce information, the State Services Commission has created a dataset of historical information from the annual Human Resource Capability (HRC) survey. The dataset repackages previously published HRC information and provides a longer time series than the standard HRC reports.

Because the standard survey reports are PDF and HTML based, it can be difficult to reuse the survey data. By publishing the information as an Excel workbook, we hope to make it easier for people to use the information collected from the survey.

What information are we making available?

The information dates back as far as 1913, although most of the tables show trends between 2001 and 2009. In summary, the dataset contains the following information.

At department level:

• Full time equivalent (FTE) staff numbers between 2000 and 2009.

At Public Service level:

• Staff numbers (headcounts) between 1913 and 2009
• Staff numbers by gender between 1994 and 2009
• Staff numbers by agreement type (collective or individual) between 2001 and 2009
• Staff numbers by agreement term (open/permanent or fixed term) between 2001 and 2009
• The number of full and part time staff between 2001 and 2009
• The number of staff by age (5-year groups) and gender between 2001 and 2009
• The number of staff by age (5 year groups) and ethnicity between 2001 and 2009
• Turnover rates between 2001 and 2009
• Turnover rates between 2001 and 2009 by gender, ethnicity, length of service, age, and region
• Equality and diversity data between 2001 and 2009.