A workforce and leadership that is substantially more representative of society:
MELAA = Middle Eastern, Latin American and African.
*Suppressed to maintain privacy
As a whole, the Commission workforce is underrepresented in Māori and Asian ethnic groups, when compared to the Public Service and the New Zealand population. We are on target to match the representation of Pacific and MELAA ethnicities in the New Zealand population.
Our leadership (Tiers 1-3) is representative of the Māori population of New Zealand. While Asian, Pacific and MELAA ethnicities are suppressed for privacy, we can share that we are currently not meeting our targets.
Tiers 1-3 includes Public Service Commissioner and Deputy Public Service Commissioners (Tier 1).
Tiers 1-3 include people leaders only. This differs from last year when Assistant Commissioners were included. The impact of this change to the composition of Tiers 1-3 is the primary reason for the increased proportion of leaders with Māori ethnicity (from 21 percent in 2023 to 25 percent in 2024).
- Information in the Diversity Demographics table above is from the 2021 Te Taunaki | Public Service Census. Our response rate was 93.5 percent.
- This Census was the first time we were able to capture a wider range of data on a variety of diversity dimensions (including Rainbow and disability). The next time these diversity dimensions will be collected is in the next Census, expected to be in early 2025.
- Enhancing data collection across a wider range of diversity dimensions is a priority action in our DEI Plan, however privacy considerations mean the confidentiality provided by the Census remains the best method of data collection at this time. Therefore, this will be the approach we will adopt for data collection.
See Appendix C of the 2022-23 DEI plan for more detail on how Te Taunaki | Public Service Census informed the development of the 2024-25 plan.
All data above and below is at 30 June 2024.
Charts include Commission employees (including Tier 1 statutory roles) who have disclosed their gender as female or male.
To protect privacy, unknown or other genders are not included.
As a smaller organisation, we are unable to report on the intersection of gender and ethnicity in order to protect people’s privacy.
*Tiers 1-3 includes Public Service Commissioner and Deputy Public Service Commissioners (Tier 1) and people leaders. This differs from last year which included assistant commissioners. The impact of this is that Tier 1-3 was proportionately less male at 30 June 2024 than it was in June 2023 (from 46.5 percent male in June 2023 to 43.8 percent male in June 2024).