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Pay Gaps #3 – 12 ways to improve public confidence in gender pay gap data

June 27, 2018 By Nigel

This is intended to be a briefing note for anyone interested in seeing gender pay gap data being used properly.  Gender pay gap data is now part is the business and political discourse in the UK and is likely to be so for some time.  If the goal of gender pay gap reporting is to remove disparities in pay between men and women, then it is essential that the public has confidence in both the quality of the data being published and the correctness of any interpretations of the results.  With the first round of data reporting out of the way, it is time to learn lessons, identify improvements and see that these are implemented.  Following extensive analysis of the 2017 round of results, I have identified 12 ways to improve the quality of the data being reported and make interpretations of the results more meaningful.
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