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Description
Leicester City Council provides annual data on the gender pay gap for its employees, excluding those based in schools. The dataset covers all permanent, temporary, and casual staff employed at the end of a pay period, with pay gaps calculated using men's pay as the divisor. The data is scheduled for yearly updates, with the last metadata update recorded on 2026-06-17.
Use Cases
Analyzing gender-based pay disparities within a major UK local authority based on the reported pay gap percentages.
Tracking changes in public sector pay equity over time based on the annual update schedule.
Benchmarking local government employment practices against national trends using the specific council-level data.
Strengths
Data covers all employee types (permanent, temporary, casual) for a defined public sector organization.
Update frequency is explicitly stated as yearly, suggesting a commitment to current data.
The calculation method for the pay gap percentage is specified (men's pay as the divisor).
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
Data excludes school-based staff, limiting the scope to non-educational council employees.
Provenance
Source
Leicester City Council
Collection Method
Administrative records of council employees' pay.
Freshness
Updated yearly; last metadata update was 2026-06-17.
Geography
Leicester, United Kingdom
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