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Data Collection

Job Categories
Job categories were chosen based upon high volume and high cost.  Consultation was undertaken with Local Government Analysis and Research to ensure categories chosen were compatible with work being undertaken to try to standardise coding for jobs in local government.  Consideration was also given to the Standard Occupational Classification 2000 Volume 2 and the National Minimum Data Set for Social Care.

The list of jobs identified will be used for immediate development.  It is expected that over time this list might be added to.

Job categories list (Excel document Download Excel document 206 Kb)

Data Categories
It will not be possible to identify individual workers when interrogating the database.  Each job category provides a high level description of a number of individual roles found within a local authority and data collected will be combined to provide an illustration of cost and number of hours worked for any particular role.

Input data template (Excel document Download Excel document 14 Kb)

A mapping exercise of each authority's directorates will need to be made to link to those used for General Fund Revenue Account Outturns so that the directorate name captured is standardised as follows:

  • Education Services
  • Highways, roads and transport services
  • Social services
  • Housing services
  • Cultural and related services
  • Environmental services
  • Planning and development services
  • Central services
  • Other services