Anthony Duff, the Chair of the RAE2008 Philosophy sub-panel, has released the breakdown of scores they awarded for the various components that went into determining departments’ RAE results. (For each department or unit, research outputs were worth 80% of the overall distribution of grades, research environment was worth 15%, and esteem was worth 5%.) They are as follows:

Outputs 4* 3* 2* 1* U
13.3% 38.2% 40.3% 7.6% 0.6%

Research environment 4* 3* 2* 1* U
Unweighted 34.5% 29.0% 28.6% 7.9% 0.0%
Weighted by size of unit 55.4% 24.6% 17.0% 3.0% 0.0%

Esteem indicators 4* 3* 2* 1* U
Unweighted 29.7% 25.0% 40.5% 4.8% 0.0%
Weighted by size of unit 51.1% 23.8% 23.3% 1.8% 0.0%

Please note:
1. You can see the breakdown of the score for each department into output, environment and esteem components here.

2. The weighted scores take into account the size of the unit/department. Imagine just 2 departments were submitted, and that Department X had all 100% of its esteem score valued at 4*, and Department Y had all 100% awarded at 3*. The unweighted distribution nationally would thus be 50% at 4* and 50% at 3*. But Dept X had 9 members of staff submitted, whereas Dept Y only had 1. So the weighted distribution nationally would be 90% at 4* and 10% at 3*.