Breakdown of SIA licence holders by gender and ethnicity
Published 17 August 2020
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1. Request
Statistics on the gender and ethnicity breakdown of licence holders for each of the last 5 years.
2. Response
I can confirm that we hold some of the information you have requested.
The table below provides the breakdown of licences granted by gender over the past 5 years.
| August to July | Female | Male | Total | % Female |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | 11,501 | 114,134 | 125,635 | 9.2% |
| 2016-17 | 12,396 | 112,110 | 124,506 | 10.0% |
| 2017-18 | 15,804 | 144,999 | 160,803 | 9.8% |
| 2018-19 | 15,285 | 130,868 | 146,153 | 10.5% |
| 2019-20 | 13,371 | 119,643 | 133,014 | 10.1% |
| Grand Total | 68,357 | 621,754 | 690,111 | 9.9% |
We do not currently collect ethnicity data from applicants. However, we are working on a project to collect more data from our licence holders. You may wish to check the industry statistics that we publish each month as this will be where we publish any additional data that we start collecting. They currently already provide a snapshot of our current licence holders, broken down by the demographic data we collect.
[Reference: FOI 0222]