Data on the socio-demographic make-up of the OPS and its leadership is from the annual OPS Employee Experience Survey. The survey was sent to all employees in the OPS. In 2021, approximately 63% of employees responded.

Data on the socio-demographic make-up of people in the four pathways to leadership are from various surveys administered by the program areas responsible for each pathway. For consistency, the questions and categories used in these surveys mirror those used in the Employee Experience Survey. For many questions, people may have chosen more than one socio-demographic group or category. As such, percentage counts may add up to more than 100%.

Respondents self-identified their job classification levels:

  • “Manager” refers to “Manager or OPP Staff Sergeant to Inspector”
  • “Executive 2” refers to “Director or OPP Superintendents or equivalent position”
  • “Executive 3-4 and above” refers to “Assistant Deputy Minister, Associate Deputy Minister, OPP Provincial Commander or equivalent” or “Deputy Minister, OPP Commissioner or equivalent”

Cells are empty and marked with a double asterisk (**) if either:

  1. there are fewer than 10 respondents for a given question or category for OPS and senior leadership results (collected through the Employee Experience Survey)
  2. there are fewer than five respondents for Pathways to Leadership results

The data is suppressed due to a small sample size to avoid potential identification of individuals and to protect privacy.

Data is point-in-time and based on varying participation rates and sample sizes for each category. Response rates are estimates for high-level approximation and should not be otherwise reported. Further, different confidence levels exist for different results (for example, for the OPS overall, leadership and intersectional data).

Notes on data sources for underrepresented groups

See the survey questions online for how the underrepresented groups in this report were categorized and counted (in order of appearance in data tables).

Sexual orientation and LGBTQ+: Sexual orientation refers to a person’s emotional, romantic or sexual attraction to other people usually in relation to the gender(s) to which they are attracted. The derived variable “LGBTQ+” includes the following responses, alone or in combination: Asexual; Bisexual; Gay; Lesbian; Pansexual; Queer; Questioning; and/or Two-Spirit (specific to Indigenous cultures).

“Transgender” refers to those that answered “yes” and “questioning” to “Do you identify as transgender?” Transgender is an umbrella term that refers to people whose gender identity, expression or behavior is different from those typically associated with their assigned sex at birth. Identities considered to fall under this umbrella can include trans, transsexual, non-binary, gender fluid, and genderqueer – as well as many more.

“Non-Binary and/or Two-Spirit” refers to those who answered “Non-Binary” and/or “Two-Spirit” (specific to Indigenous cultures), or selected “I don’t identify with the above” when asked “What is your gender identity?”

“Indigenous” respondents are those that answered “yes” to “Are you an Indigenous person? (First Nations, Inuk, Métis).”

“Persons with Disabilities” respondents are those who answered “yes” to “Do you have a disability?”. Those who answered “yes” are presented with the question “What is the severity of your disability?” and can select from the response options “mild”, “moderate”, “severe” or “very severe”. Responses for severity of disability are grouped to enable reporting. Data on severity of disability is based on a new survey question and is only available for 2021.

Race categories and how “racialized” is calculated is based on Ontario’s Anti-Racism Data Standards. The racialized variable is derived from responses to the question “What race best describes you?” and is comparable to Statistics Canada’s Visible Minority category. Note that tables showing disaggregated data on race will not add up to a total number of racialized people because respondents can select more than one racial category.

People are counted as “racialized” if they chose:

  1. Black, South Asian, East/Southeast Asian, Latino or Middle Eastern either on their own or in combination with each other; or
  2. Black, South Asian and East/South Asian in combination with White. Latino and Middle Eastern in combination with White would not be considered racialized and therefore would not be included in the racialized variable