2 Source data

The original data for the Civil Service People Survey is published by the Cabinet Office. Table 2.1 provides links to each of the sources and Table 2.2 provides a summary of coverage overtime.

Table 2.1: Civil Service People Survey source data and documents

Year(s)	Source location
2009-2013	https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20140310230334/http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/about/improving/employee-engagement-in-the-civil-service/people-survey-2013
2014	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-people-survey-2014-results
2015	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-people-survey-2015-results
2016	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-people-survey-2016-results
2017	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-people-survey-2017-results–2
2018	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-people-survey-2018-results
2019	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-people-survey-2019-results
2020	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-people-survey-2020-results
2021	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-people-survey-2021-results
2022	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-people-survey-2022-results
2023	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-people-survey-2023-results
2024	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-people-survey-2024-results

Table 2.2: Summary of data coverage

Survey results	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Civil Service benchmark (median) scores	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
All respondents (mean) scores										Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Organisation scores	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Demographic scores					Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Demographic scores by ethnicity						Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Demographic scores by sex/gender						Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Demographic scores by health status						Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Demographic scores by LGBT identity						Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Demographic scores by socio-economic background											Y		Y	Y	Y	Y
SCS scores¹	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y

Table 2.2 summarises the extent of data covered, however owing to changes in publication practice over time there is not necessarily a specific file relating to each set of data in each year. Notably:

The 2009 to 2012 benchmarks are provided in the 2013 benchmarks file(s).
From 2014 onwards the SCS results are included in the demographic scores file(s).
From 2021 onwards the all respondents (mean) scores and organisation scores are included in the benchmark scores file.

The original data is published in a combination of CSV and Excel formats from 2009 to 2019, in 2020 in a combination of CSV and Open Document Spreadsheet (ODS) format, and only in ODS format from 2021 onwards. The file raw-data/00_data_files.yaml provides a log of all the relevant files contained within the raw-data folder, this file is also used to construct the 00_data_files.csv and 00_data_coverage.csv reference datasets.

The remaining sections of this chapter provide an overview of the data files stored in the raw-data folder of the csps-data repo.

CSPS 2009

Source: UK Government Web Archive
Repo folder: raw-data/2009
Data files:
- Organisation scores (CSV, Excel)

The benchmark and SCS results are contained in the 2013 results files.

CSPS 2010

Source: UK Government Web Archive
Repo folder: raw-data/2010
Data files:
- Organisation scores (CSV, Excel)
Other files:
- Summary of findings report (PDF)

The benchmark and SCS results are contained in the 2013 results files.

CSPS 2011

Source: UK Government Web Archive
Repo folder: raw-data/2011
Data files:
- Organisation scores (CSV, Excel)
Other files:
- Summary of findings report (PDF)

The benchmark and SCS results are contained in the 2013 results files.

CSPS 2012

Source: UK Government Web Archive
Repo folder: raw-data/2012
Data files:
- Organisation scores (CSV, Excel)
Other files:
- Summary of findings report (PDF)

The benchmark and SCS results are contained in the 2013 results files.

CSPS 2013

Source: UK Government Web Archive
Repo folder: raw-data/2013
Data files:
- Benchmark (median) scores (CSV, Excel)
- Organisation scores (CSV, Excel)
- Demographic scores (CSV, Excel)
- SCS trend results (CSV, Excel)
Other files:
- Benchmark scores report (PDF)
- SCS trend results report (PDF)
- Demographic scores (PDF)
- Summary of findings report (PDF)
- Technical guide (PDF)
- Core questionnaire (PDF)

CSPS 2014

Source: GOV.UK
Repo folder: raw-data/2014
Data files:
- Benchmark (median) scores (CSV, Excel)
- Organisation scores (CSV, Excel)
- Demographic scores (CSV, Excel)
- Demographic scores by ethnicity (Excel)
- Demographic scores by sex/gender (Excel)
- Demographic scores by health status (Excel)
- Demographic scores by LGBT identity (Excel)
Other files:
- Benchmark scores report (PDF)
- SCS trend results report (PDF)
- Summary of findings report (PDF)
- Technical guide (PDF)

CSPS 2015

Source: GOV.UK
Repo folder: raw-data/2015
Data files:
- Benchmark (median) scores (CSV)
- Organisation scores (CSV, Excel)
- Demographic scores (CSV, Excel)
- Demographic scores by ethnicity (Excel)
- Demographic scores by sex/gender (Excel)
- Demographic scores by health status (Excel)
- Demographic scores by LGBT identity (Excel)
Other files:
- Benchmark scores report (PDF)
- Summary of findings report (PDF)
- Technical guide (PDF)

CSPS 2016

Source: GOV.UK
Repo folder: raw-data/2016
Data files:
- Benchmark (median) scores (CSV)
- Organisation scores (CSV, Excel)
- Demographic scores (CSV, Excel)
- Demographic scores by ethnicity (Excel)
- Demographic scores by sex/gender (Excel)
- Demographic scores by health status (Excel)
- Demographic scores by LGBT identity (Excel)
Other files:
- Benchmark scores report (PDF)
- Departmental trends report (PDF)
- Technical guide (PDF)

CSPS 2017

Source: GOV.UK
Repo folder: raw-data/2017
Data files:
- Benchmark (median) scores (CSV)
- Organisation scores (CSV, Excel)
- Demographic scores (Excel)
- Demographic scores by ethnicity (Excel)
- Demographic scores by sex/gender (Excel)
- Demographic scores by health status (Excel)
- Demographic scores by LGBT identity (Excel)
Other files:
- Benchmark scores report (PDF)
- Departmental trends report (PDF)
- Technical guide (PDF)

CSPS 2018

Source: GOV.UK
Repo folder: raw-data/2018
Data files:
- Benchmark (median) scores (CSV)
- All respondent (mean) scores (CSV)
- Organisation scores (CSV, Excel)
- Demographic scores (Excel)
- Demographic scores by ethnicity (Excel)
- Demographic scores by sex/gender (Excel)
- Demographic scores by health status (Excel)
- Demographic scores by LGBT identity (Excel)
Other files:
- Benchmark scores report (PDF)
- Departmental trends report (PDF)
- Technical guide (PDF)

CSPS 2019

Source: GOV.UK
Repo folder: raw-data/2019
Data files:
- Benchmark (median) scores (CSV)
- All respondent (mean) scores (CSV)
- Organisation scores (CSV, Excel)
- Demographic scores (Excel)
- Demographic scores by ethnicity (Excel)
- Demographic scores by sex/gender (Excel)
- Demographic scores by health status (Excel)
- Demographic scores by LGBT identity (Excel)
- Demographic scores by socio-economic background (Excel)
Other files:
- Benchmark scores report (PDF)
- Departmental trends report (PDF)
- Technical guide (PDF)

CSPS 2020

Source: GOV.UK
Repo folder: raw-data/2020
Data files:
- Benchmark (median) scores (CSV)
- All respondent (mean) scores (CSV)
- Organisation scores (ODS)
- Demographic scores (ODS)
- Demographic scores by ethnicity (ODS)
- Demographic scores by sex/gender (ODS)
- Demographic scores by health status (ODS)
- Demographic scores by LGBT identity (ODS)
Other files:
- Technical guide (PDF)

CSPS 2021

Source: GOV.UK
Repo folder: raw-data/2021
Data files:
- Benchmark (median) scores (ODS)
- Demographic scores (ODS)
- Demographic scores by ethnicity (ODS)
- Demographic scores by sex/gender (ODS)
- Demographic scores by health status (ODS)
- Demographic scores by LGBT identity (ODS)
- Demographic scores by socio-economic background (ODS)
Other files:
- Technical guide (HTML)

The all respondent (mean) scores and organisation scores are included in the benchmark scores ODS file.

The technical guide is published as an HTML file. For archive purposes the raw-data/2021 folder contains a PDF print-preview of the report and a zip file containing the HTML file and associated assets (e.g. images, CSV, JavaScript).

CSPS 2022

Source: GOV.UK
Repo folder: raw-data/2022
Data files:
- Benchmark (median) scores (ODS)
- Demographic scores (ODS)
- Demographic scores by ethnicity (ODS)
- Demographic scores by sex/gender (ODS)
- Demographic scores by health status (ODS)
- Demographic scores by LGBT identity (ODS)
- Demographic scores by socio-economic background (ODS)
Other files:
- Technical guide (HTML)

The all respondent (mean) scores and organisation scores are included in the benchmark scores ODS file.

The technical guide is published as an HTML file. For archive purposes the raw-data/2022 folder contains a PDF print-preview of the report and a zip file containing the HTML file and associated assets (e.g. images, CSV, JavaScript).

CSPS 2023

Source: GOV.UK
Repo folder: raw-data/2023
Data files:
- Benchmark (median) scores (ODS)
- Demographic scores (ODS)
- Demographic scores by ethnicity (ODS)
- Demographic scores by sex/gender (ODS)
- Demographic scores by health status (ODS)
- Demographic scores by LGBT identity (ODS)
- Demographic scores by socio-economic background (ODS)
Other files:
- Results highlights (HTML)
- Quality and Methodology Information (HTML)

The all respondent (mean) scores and organisation scores are included in the benchmark scores ODS file.

The results highlights and the ‘quality and methodology information’ (previously called the technical guide) are published as HTML files. For archive purposes the raw-data/2023 folder contains a PDF print-preview of each report and a zip file containing the HTML file and associated assets (e.g. images, CSV, JavaScript).

CSPS 2024

Source: GOV.UK
Repo folder: raw-data/2024
Data files:
- Benchmark (median) scores (ODS)
- Demographic scores (ODS)
- Demographic scores by ethnicity (ODS)
- Demographic scores by sex/gender (ODS)
- Demographic scores by health status (ODS)
- Demographic scores by LGBT identity (ODS)
- Demographic scores by socio-economic background (ODS)
Other files:
- Results highlights (HTML)
- Quality and Methodology Information (HTML)

The all respondent (mean) scores and organisation scores are included in the benchmark scores ODS file.

In 2013 the Cabinet Office stated to publish results all respondents by demographic group, including the results for the Senior Civil Service (SCS). In 2013 a one-off publication of the SCS results from 2009 to 2013 was also released, in future years the scores for the SCS are included in the demographic results publications.↩︎