Hello
I am trying to prepare our annual Staff Diversity report for publication on the website and our usual approach is to mask any low numbers in any table by substituting <5 or <10 for the number, so that there is less chance that individuals can be identified from the frequency statistics presented. However the number of people submitting a grievance to the School is small - and for internal reporting purposes the HR people have included a table which breaks down the complainants and respondents by both gender and ethnicity - but this means the numbers are all 1s and 2s. So if I mask those numbers, the table will become virtually meaningless.
We wonder what other institutions do if they publish these sorts of statistics?
regards, Deb
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Deb Viney, Diversity Advisor
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School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS),
Thornhaugh Street,
Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG
tel: 0207 898 4957
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