Figure 5 - Academic staff (excluding atypical) by equality characteristics 2016/17 - 2020/21
- Title: Academic staff (excluding atypical) by age group, disability status, ethnicity, nationality, sex, contract level and country of HE provider
- Reference ID: SB261 Figure 5
- Location: UK
- Academic years: 2016/17 to 2020/21
- Data source: HESA
- Sourced from: Higher Education Staff Statistics: UK, 2020/21
- Data source link: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/sb261/figure-5
- Data file canonical link: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/sb261/figure-5.csv
- Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- 2016/17 total: 206,870
- 2017/18 total: 211,980
- 2018/19 total: 217,065
- 2019/20 total: 223,525
- 2020/21 total: 224,530
- Last updated: Feb-22
Figure 5 - Academic staff (excluding atypical) by equality characteristics
Academic years 2016/17 to 2020/21
For breakdowns of staff equality characteristics by more data items, including a timeseries of data back to 2014/15, please see table 2 and table 4 of the Higher Education Staff Data open dataset.
Type of data
Administrative data
Data source
HESA (Higher Education Statistics Agency) is part of Jisc. We are the experts in UK higher education data and analysis. We have been collecting higher education information since the 1994/95 academic year.
Staff data is taken from the HESA Staff record, which universities, colleges and other higher education providers return to HESA on an annual basis. The Staff record collects a range of information about the personal characteristics of staff and the details of their employment contracts.
We provide data and analysis on staff to a wide variety of customers, including:
- Governments
- Universities (via the Heidi Plus analytics tool)
- Academic and commercial researchers
- Students and potential students
- Trade unions and employers' associations
- Policy makers.
Our data is used to regulate the sector, inform policy making, advance understanding of social and economic trends, support decision making, and enhance public understanding of - and confidence in - the higher education sector.
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We implement a rounding and suppression strategy in published and released tabulations designed to prevent the disclosure of personal information about any individual. This strategy involves rounding all numbers to the nearest multiple of 5 and suppressing percentages and averages based on small populations.
Related releases
We publish annual statistical bulletins about staff in higher education.
Our HE Staff Data pages collect together all of the tables we publish on staff in higher education.
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