The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is an equal opportunities employer which is committed to meeting its obligations under the relevant legislation. Information held by the Department on civilian gender and declared ethnicity by pay grade as at 1 October 2013 is presented in the following table. However, information on the proportion of civilian employees with a declared disability is not currently available, following redefinition of the reporting categories in 2011 to facilitate alignment with revised census definitions. The number of staff who have subsequently made a disability declaration is not yet sufficient to enable valid reporting of disability representation rates. MODcivilian staff at each broader banded pay grade by gender and declaredethnicity Percentage Female Male Blackand minorityethnicity White CoreMODtotal 37.3 62.7 3.8 96.2 Non-industrial 41.5 58.5 4.1 95.9 SCS 22.3 77.7 — — BandB 28.2 71.8 3.7 96.3 BandC 33.4 66.6 3.7 96.3 BandD 40.6 59.4 3.5 96.5 BandE 52.3 47.7 4.8 95.2 Industrial 15.1 84.9 2.4 97.6 Skillzones 1 to4 16.9 83.1 2.5 97.5 Otherindustrials 1.6 98.4 2.2 97.8 ‘—‘denotes percentage not given, reflecting departmental policy that basevalues less than or equal to 5 should not bedisclosed. Notes: 1.Ethnicity figures are based on active self-declaration and excludepersonnel who have either not responded or who have actively chosen nottodeclare. 2.Figures exclude all Trading Fund personnel, Royal Fleet Auxiliary andlocally engagedcivilians. 3.White' includes all personnel with a self-declared status of White.'British White' is a nationality category which cannot be separatelyidentified within the Department's self-declared ethnicitydata. The MOD publishes a biannual breakdown of diversity statistics which contains a wide-ranging analysis across all diversity categories. The next publication is due on 28 November 2013, and a link to this series can be found at the following web address: http://www.dasa.mod.uk/index.php/publications/personnel/combined/diversity-dashboard