In developing and quality assuring our processes ahead of our work on the 2023 workforce data report our analysis processes were reviewed and an anomaly was detected. It was found that when calculating some of the percentage rates on the characteristics of the workforce (e.g. ethnicity, gender, disability etc.) an incomplete version of the data set was used. This has resulted in the need to revise some of the data tables to correct these errors in the published report.

By identifying the underlying cause of the error we are implementing greater quality assurance checks into our process to prevent this in the future.
The affected tables and charts are listed below.

Table 14: Percentage of staff by gender and sub-sector, 2022
Table 15: Percentage of staff by ethnic classification and employer type, 2022
Table 16: Percentage of staff by ethnic classification and sub-sector, 2022
Table 17: Percentage of staff by disability and sub-sector, 2022
Table 19: Percentage of staff by job function and sub-sector 2022
Table 20: Percentage of staff by contract type and sub-sector, 2022
Table 21: Median weekly hours by employer type and sub-sector, 2022
Table 22: Percentage of part time and full time workers by sub-sector,
2022
Figure 9: Histograms of the age of the workforce by employer type and sub-sector, 2022
Figure 10: Histograms of hours by employer type and sub-sector, 2022
Figure 11. Percentage of part time and full time workers by sub-sector, 2022

This report has been revised and all of the affected tables as listed above and associated text have been updated with accurate figures. Other text remains as originally published.

The revised report can be found here: https://data.sssc.uk.com/data-publications/22-workforce-data-report/328-scottish-social-service-sector-report-on-2022-workforce-data