What is analysing and reporting on D&I data?
Analysing and reporting on D&I data are the steps following D&I data collection. They involve exploring, benchmarking, and reporting back on your data to identify trends, strengths, and areas of opportunity when it comes to your D&I work.
For example:
- how diverse your workforce is in relation to the diversity of the broader working population (e.g. against census data)
- how diverse your workforce is in relation to the diversity in the community you serve (e.g. against the diversity of clients/customers/patients you serve)
- your employees’ experiences with inclusion and exclusion
- demographic groups experiencing less inclusion and more exclusion.
Just starting out? See DCA’s ‘Get your baseline D&I data’.
Why analyse and report on D&I data?
Collecting D&I data alone is not enough to guide your D&I work. D&I data needs to be analysed to understand where you need to focus your efforts. It also needs to be reported on to engage your employees with your D&I work and to build trust in providing D&I data in the future.
Read & learn more
- DCA’s comprehensive D&I 101 – Collecting Diversity Data guide outlines leading practice principles for undertaking respectful and inclusive diversity data collection. The guide provides sample wording across a range of diversity demographic groups and benchmarking information.
Want to delve deeper?
- Members can also watch the recording of DCA’s key contact event Diversity Data Deep Dive to hear our experts answer members’ burning questions on D&I data.
- If you have queries about collecting cultural diversity data, explore our research report Counting Culture to discover this standardised approach for defining, measuring, and reporting on workforce cultural diversity in a respectful, accurate and inclusive way.
DCA's Inclusive Employer Index
One way to understand the impact that D&I initiatives are having in your organisation or where to start focus on is via DCA’sInclusive Employer Index.
DCA’s Inclusive Employer Index is a survey that enables organisations to explore, map and track the state of inclusion in their workforce benchmarked against leading D&I employers.
By taking part in the Index, you can measure diversity and inclusion in your workforce, its impact, and compare findings to national and DCA Member benchmarks. The survey gathers data from your encompassing the following.
- Diversity: the diversity of your workforce on a range of demographic backgrounds (e.g., Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, age, cultural background, disability status, gender, sexual orientation).
- Inclusion: employees’ experience of workplace inclusion and exclusion.
- Impact: the impact of workplace inclusion on team and employee outcomes.
Organisations that participate in the Inclusive Employer Index also have access to the following.
- a leading-practice benchmark: your diversity and inclusion results compared to a DCA-Member Leading-Practice Benchmark, as well as access to a Standard Practice Benchmark, derived from a nationally representative survey of 3000 workers
- an individualised business case for inclusion: using your own results, you will receive a case for the impact of inclusion on your employee wellbeing and performance to help with your internal D&I engagement
- profiling as an Inclusive Employer 2024-2025: DCA publicly promotes organisations who achieve Inclusive Employer status through their participation in the Inclusive Employer Index.(with the organisation’s permission). See our list of past and present Inclusive Employers here.
The Inclusive Employer Index runs annually. Find out more here.
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