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Employment Monitoring: Race

Existing Workforce

Ethnicity of NSS employees - existing workforce - data as at 31 December 2009
Ethnic Group Total
African 21
Any other background 16
Bangladeshi X
Caribbean X
Chinese 8
Declined 4
Indian 14
Other Asian background 8
Other black background X
Other ethnic background 12
Other white background 89
Pakistani 20
No information held 111
White British 264
White Irish 18
White Scottish 3074
TOTAL 3663

X indicates less than 5 in a grouping and totals not shown

Comparison against 2001 Scotland Census Results

NSS employee ethnicity - comparison against 2001 Scotland Census
  Census 2001: % of total population NSS: % of total staff
White Scottish 88.09 83.92
White other British 7.38 7.21
White Irish 0.98 0.49
Other white background 1.54 2.43
Any mixed background 0.25 0.44
Indian 0.30 0.38
Pakistani 0.63 0.55
Bangladeshi 0.04 0.03
Chinese 0.32 0.22
Other Asian background 0.12 0.22
Caribbean 0.04 0.05
African 0.10 0.57
Other Black background 0.02 0.03
Other ethnic background 0.19 0.33
Declined n/a 0.11
Unknown n/a 3.03

84% of the NSS population are White Scottish. The percentage of staff from BME communities is much lower despite an open and fair recruitment process.

Recruitment

Ethnicity profile of NSS employees - recruitment - data as at 31 December 2009
Ethnic Origin Applications Requested Applications Received Shortlist Pre Interview Post Interview Conditional Offer Refer-ences Success-ful
White Scottish 2,863 2,624 2,551 983 844 340 333 676
White other British 305 278 272 108 93 35 34 71
White Irish 38 36 36 10 8 1 1 2
Other white background 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Any mixed background 25 23 23 6 4 3 3 5
Indian 127 124 123 30 25 5 4 8
Pakistani 48 46 43 12 9 3 3 4
Bangladeshi 12 12 12 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese 22 21 20 10 10 3 3 6
Other Asian background 41 36 34 7 5 3 3 6
Black Caribbean 5 5 5 1 1 0 0 0
Black African 146 138 129 32 19 5 5 10
Other black background 13 12 12 6 4 0 0 1
Any other background 16 15 14 4 4 1 1 3
Prefer not to answer 4,752 2,987 1,408 488 401 136 128 263
TOTAL 8,413 6,357 4,682 1,697 1,427 535 518 1,055

The majority of applicants who apply and are successful are of White origin. The number of applicants and success rates from BME communities is low.

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