In 2023, a progress audit is made up of 5 datasets of workforce data and an employee experience data set. The first section of this appendix describes what information belongs in each of the 5 workforce datasets. The second section of this appendix describes the fields within each of the 5 workforce datasets.
The full progress audit handbook is available in the downloadable progress report guidance. You can download this on the right-hand side of this page, or below. Appendix B of the document contains all of the information relating to the above datasets.
Items in both sections are tagged to help you understand what’s changed since 2021.
| Mandatory field | Your organisation must populate this field in 2023. The Commission won’t be able to process your audit submission without it. |
| Pilot data field | This optional data is being collected on a trial basis in 2023. It was not part of the 2021 workplace gender audit. |
| New definition | The definition of this dataset or data field has changed significantly since the 2021 workplace gender audit. |
| Spec change | The accepted values for this field have changed since the 2021 workplace gender audit. |
| Format change | This data was part of the 2021 workplace gender audit but will be collected in a different way in 2023. |
Progress audit 2023: guidance for defined entities
Progress audit guidance v1.4
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Progress audit guidance v1.4 (word)
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