Additional information to include in your reporting

 

Including the context of your survey

It takes time to go from survey to reporting. So it’s important that your staff are able to connect back to the survey. Remember to include when the survey opened and when it closed. And, of course, the date of publication for the report.

There is additional information that can be helpful. For example:

• How long data analysis took and if there were any barriers.
• The process of developing the report and who was involved.
• When you are expecting to run the survey again.

Response rate

It’s not possible for a survey to be representative of your organisation as a whole. You should state that the report is only a representation of those who answered. Giving information about this will contextualise your report. It might also give you some insight about missing voices. This could inform what you can do to increase your response rate for the next survey.

At a minimum, you should state:

• how many people received the survey
• how many people responded to the survey

Depending on the questions you asked, you might include additional information. For example, the response rate for:

• staff at different levels in the organisation
• staff in different areas of your organisation

There are different factors that can influence engagement. For example, you might want to consider that:

• Accessibility issues might have kept certain staff from responding.
• Some staff are in a role where it’s more difficult to respond.

Comparing your data to available statistics

In chapter 9, we discussed tracking your progress. One major way to do this is to compare your employees’ experience in your organisation over time.

But it’s also important to contextualise how well your organisation is doing in general. You can compare the data we have available about disabled people in the workplace. This can also help you prioritise certain actions.

Some of the data available about disabled people is updated every year. And some is updated less often. At Scope, we present and analyse up-to-date data from external sources. But we also collect and analyse data ourselves.

Annual statistics of disabled people in the UK

Family Resources Survey: financial year 2021 to 2022 (GOV.UK)

Published: every financial year

Covers: United Kingdom

It provides information about:

How many people are disabled in the UK: 16 million people, or 24% of the population.

The proportion of disabled people in the UK who are of working age: 23%.

The employment rates of disabled and non-disabled people:

• 74% of all working age adults are in employment
  • 65% employed
  • 9% self-employed
• 50% of all working age disabled adults are in employment
  • 44% employed
  • 6% self-employed
• 81% of all working age non-disabled adults are in employment
  • 72% employed
  • 9% self-employed

The data is also available separated by:

• binary genders
• countries in the United Kingdom
• regions in England
• impairment types
• full-time or part-time employment

Estimates on the labour market status of disabled people

Labour market status of disabled people (ONS.GOV.UK)

Published: every quarter

Covers: United Kingdom

It provides information about:

• estimates of the economic activity of disabled people
• the disability employment gap

Disabled employee retention report

Disabled employee retention report (Scope)

Retention of disabled staff toolkit (Scope)

Published: 2023

It provides information about why disabled people find it harder to stay in work:

• Negative attitudes and discrimination at work.
• Lack of reasonable adjustments.
• Inflexible working patterns.
• Sick pay and return to work process issues.

The disability pay gap

The disability pay gap explained (EHRC)

Published: 2017

It provides information about:

• pay gaps for people with different types of impairments
• trends in employees and pay
• the key causes of the disability pay gap