Each time the results of a new Public Service Employee Survey (PSES) are released, we request data from Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) that is specific to the communities we represent. Unfortunately, it appears the dataset we received this year was incomplete and did not accurately reflect the results for the CT Community.
As a result of this issue with the dataset, we’re retracting the departmental rankings we shared with members via email on Monday, August 11.
Prompted by members reaching out with questions about the results, we discovered this issue may have been caused by confusion in the data between the new CT Group structure and the legacy FI, AU and internal audit classifications. We’ll be digging deeper into the data that’s available to us over the coming weeks to determine whether we can extract any meaningful insights but, for understandable reasons around confidentiality, we only have access to partial datasets from TBS.
We understand this departmental ranking is a resource our members value. While we’ve had to retract this version, we have a very similar question in our State of the Community survey (SOTC) that will be launching in the next few weeks, which will allow us to prepare a more reliable report based on data we collect directly.
We’d like to apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this may have caused, and we look forward to providing members with an updated report following the completion of the SOTC survey.