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Civil Service People Survey: 2021 results

The results of the 2021 People Survey, which looks at civil servants' attitudes to and experience of working in government departments.

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Cabinet Office
Published:
28 April 2022
Last updated:
17 October 2022
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  1. In October 2022 the number of employees invited to take part and the table of participating organisations were amended in this guide. 527,569 people were invited to take part in the 2021 survey - not 546,261 as previously indicated. The percentage response rate remains correct at 62%. In the list of participating organisations the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency replaces Public Health England.

  2. Added Civil Service People Survey 2021 results by all demographic groups, ethnicity, gender, health status, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

  3. Updated 'Civil Service People Survey 2021: benchmark scores' document to make 2 corrections. Question D01 ('I understand the Civil Service Code and what it means for my conduct') is now correctly labelled and calculated across all tables. Scores for the aggregated Ministry of Justice group (MOJ_group) in Table 3 now include Probation Service (PS).

  4. First published.

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Civil Service People Survey 2021: benchmark scores

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Civil Service People Survey 2021: technical guide

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Civil Service People Survey 2021: Results by all demographic groups

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Civil Service People Survey 2021: Results by ethnicity

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Civil Service People Survey 2021: Results by gender

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Civil Service People Survey 2021: Results by health status

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Civil Service People Survey 2021: Results by sexual orientation

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Civil Service People Survey 2021: Results by socio-economic background

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The Civil Service conducts a people survey each year. The survey looks at civil servants’ attitudes to and experience of working in government departments.

These are the results of the 2021 People Survey, which was open from 28 September to 3 November 2021.

We have also published a technical guide, which covers:

  • participating organisations
  • how the questionnaires were developed
  • employee engagement
  • wellbeing indices
  • publication including rounding

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