Appointments to the Public Service by Employment Equity Designated Group for 2014-2015 – Statistical Update

Introduction

This document provides an update to information on appointments to the public service by employment equity (EE) designated groups for 2014-2015. It also provides information on applicants to advertised processes by EE designated groups as well as information on EE appointments to the public service by sex and geographic area.

Statistical tables

As illustrated in Table 1 below, in 2014-2015, three of the four designated groups were appointed to the public service at a rate exceeding that of their respective workforce availability. The exception is for persons with disabilities, who were appointed at a lower rate (3.5%) than that of their workforce availability (4.4%). This continues a trend that has been observed since 2012-2013. In 2014-2015, three of the four designated groups accounted for higher percentages of appointments to the public service than in 2013-2014. The exception is for the percentage of appointments of Aboriginal peoples, which was down to 3.8% in 2014-2015, from 4.6% in 2013-2014. For reference, Table 2 below presents the percentage of applicants by EE designated group, as reported in the PSC’s Annual Report.

Table 1: Appointments to the public service to indeterminate positions and terms of three months and over, by employment equity designated group and fiscal year, compared to the 2011 workforce availability
Employment equity designated group 2011 workforce availability(a) % 2012-2013
%
2013-2014
%
2014-2015
%

Source: Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) Employment Equity Data Bank (EEDB) and the Public Service Commission (PSC) hiring and staffing activities files

(a) The 2011 workforce availability for the public service was provided by the TBS. The 2011 workforce availability data became available in 2015. This data is used by the Public Service Commission to compare with data on EE designated group applicants and appointments.

(b) The figures for these three EE designated groups are extracted from the TBS EEDB where a match was found in the PSC hiring and staffing activities file covering the current fiscal year. These include appointments as a result of both external advertised and non-advertised processes. They exclude appointments to separate agencies. Due to a change in methodology, figures published in fiscal years prior to 2012-2013 are not comparable.

(c) The figures for women are extracted from PSC hiring and staffing activities files. These include appointments as a result of both advertised and non-advertised processes. They exclude appointments to separate agencies.

Aboriginal peoples 3.4 4.9(b) 4.6(b) 3.8(b)
Persons with disabilities 4.4 3.5(b) 3.3(b) 3.5(b)
Members of visible minorities 13.0 14.7(b) 16.0(b) 16.1(b)
Women 52.5 52.9(c) 55.2(c) 56.6(c)
Table 2: Applicants (a) to advertised processes, by employment equity designated group and fiscal year, compared to the 2011 workforce availability
Employment equity designated group 2011 workforce availability (b)
%
2012-2013
%
2013-2014
%
2014-2015
%

Source: Public Service Resourcing System (PSRS)

(a) For applicants to advertised processes, the percentages for the EE designated groups are based on applicants who self-declared through the PSRS.

(b) The 2011 workforce availability for the public service was provided by the TBS. The 2011 workforce availability data became available in 2015. This data is used by the Public Service Commission to compare with data on EE designated group applicants and appointments.

(c) Applicant data by sex cannot be reported due to a change in data capture.

Note: Table includes applicants whose latest application was to an external advertisement which included an indeterminate position and/or a term position of three months and over.

Aboriginal peoples 3.4 3.0 5.0 3.0
Persons with disabilities 4.4 2.6 2.4 2.2
Members of visible minorities 13.0 23.0 21.4 20.8
Women 52.5 N/A(c) N/A(c) N/A(c)

As illustrated in Table 3 below, women accounted for 66.8% of Aboriginal peoples appointed to the public service in 2014-2015, proportionately less than in 2013-2014. Women with disabilities and members of visible minorities accounted for an increased proportion of appointments compared to last fiscal year, at 55.6% and 56.3%, respectively.

Table 3: Appointments to the public service to indeterminate positions and terms of three months and over by employment equity designated group, sex and fiscal year
Employment equity designated group 2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015
Women
%
Men
%
Women
%
Men
%
Women
%
Men
%

Source: Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) Employment Equity Data Bank (EEDB) and Public Service Commission (PSC) hiring and staffing activities files

Note: The figures for these three EE designated groups are extracted from the TBS EEDB where a match was found in the PSC hiring and staffing activities file covering the current fiscal year. These include appointments as a result of both external advertised and non-advertised processes. Due to a change in methodology, figures published in fiscal years prior to 2012-2013 are not comparable.

Distribution by sex is extracted from the PSC hiring and staffing activities files.

Aboriginal peoples 58.8 41.2 68.9 31.1 66.8 33.2
Persons with disabilities 47.7 52.3 52.7 47.3 55.6 44.4
Members of visible minorities 50.5 49.5 53.5 46.5 56.3 43.7

Updated data on appointments to the public service by EE designated group and geographic area are below. For more information on the previous year’s data, please see the PSC’s 2013-2014 Annual Report – Table 40.

Table 4: Appointments to the public service to indeterminate positions and terms of three months and over by employment equity designated group and geographic area (a)
April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015
Geographic area Appointments to the public service by employment equity designated group Total(d)
Aboriginal peoples (b) Persons with disabilities (b) Members of visible minorities (b) Women (c)
No. % No. % No. % No. % No. %

Source: Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) Employment Equity Data Bank (EEDB) and Public Service Commission (PSC) hiring and staffing activities files

(a) This table presents the distribution of total appointments to the public service within a geographic area broken down by EE designated group.

(b) The figures for these three EE designated groups are extracted from the TBS EEDB where a match was found in the PSC hiring and staffing activities file covering the current fiscal year. These include appointments as a result of both external advertised and non-advertised processes. They exclude appointments to separate agencies. Due to a change in methodology, figures published in fiscal years prior to 2012-2013 are not comparable.

(c) The figures for women are extracted from the PSC hiring and staffing activities files. These include appointments as a result of both external advertised and non-advertised processes.

(d) The sum of EE designated groups does not equal the total as a person may self-identify in more than one EE designated group and men are included in the total.

Note: The suppression of certain data cells has been applied in order to respect the confidentiality requirements of personal information. They have been replaced by the missing value indicator ' * '.

The figures for this table exclude appointments to separate agencies.

British Columbia 39 4.1 29 3.1 204 21.7 471 50.1 941 100.0
Alberta 44 5.1 23 2.7 151 17.6 499 58.1 859 100.0
Saskatchewan 52 10.4 16 3.2 60 12.0 270 53.8 502 100.0
Manitoba 54 11.1 18 3.7 50 10.3 291 59.9 486 100.0
Ontario (except NCR) 38 2.9 46 3.6 304 23.5 725 56.0 1 295 100.0
National Capital Region (NCR) 99 2.8 135 3.8 598 16.7 2 081 58.2 3 576 100.0
Quebec (except NCR) 14 1.2 20 1.8 186 16.5 632 56.1 1 127 100.0
New Brunswick 15 2.6 29 5.1 24 4.2 340 59.5 571 100.0
Nova Scotia 15 3.5 21 4.9 22 5.2 233 54.8 425 100.0
Prince Edward Island * * * * * * 26 61.9 42 100.0
Newfoundland and Labrador * * 5 4.8 3 2.9 47 45.2 104 100.0
Yukon * * 0 0.0 0 0.0 11 64.7 17 100.0
Northwest Territories 5 15.6 * * * * 22 68.8 32 100.0
Nunavut 4 14.3 * * 4 14.3 17 60.7 28 100.0
Outside Canada 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 1 100.0
Total 385 3.8 347 3.5 1 610 16.1 5 665 56.6 10 006 100.0

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