The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (EEOC) has posted extensive new data on job patterns in the
private sector, as part of the Obama Administration’s Open Government
Initiative.
The EEOC posted 11 new aggregate data sets from the most recent
edition of its report Job Patterns for Minorities and Women in Private
Industry, commonly known as the EEO-1 survey, on www.Data.gov. The
EEO-1 raw data extracts for 2008 may be downloaded at http://www.data.gov/catalog/raw/category/0/agency/119/filter/2008/type//sort//page/1/count/25.
The EEOC also posted the data on a new Open Government page, which it launched today. That page, on the EEOC’s web site at http://www.eeoc.gov/open/,
offers a one-stop location for EEOC statistics and other
performance-related materials, and will soon also provide tools for the
public to interact with the EEOC about information the agency provides
and work it does. The page will eventually carry the agency’s
comprehensive Open Government Plan.
“Posting the latest aggregate EEO-1 survey results on Data.gov is
the first step in what will be a larger EEOC effort to advance the
President’s goal of opening up our government and providing greater
access to agency information and operations,” said EEOC Acting Chairman
Stuart J. Ishimaru. “We look forward to working with stakeholders as
we create and implement our Open Government plan.”
The most recent data sets contain comprehensive labor force profiles
of race, gender and ethnicity divided by various job categories.
According to the 2008 EEO-1 survey and historical data:
- Of the approximately 62 million private sector employees nationwide
covered by the 2008 survey, about 30 million (48%) were women and 21
million (34%) were minorities;
- The rate of minority employment tripled between 1966 and 2008 from 11% to 34%;
- Among the four minority groups continuously measured, the
employment rate for Black or African Americans increased steadily from
8% in 1966 to 14% in 2008;
- Hispanics or Latinos had the fastest growth rate in the private
sector, increasing from 2.5% to over 13% between 1966 and 2008.
- Women’s overall participation rate in the private sector jumped from 31% to 48% between 1966 and 2008.
The 2008 EEO-1 data extracts will be of use to the general public,
researchers and academia, application and data infrastructure
developers, and government agencies. Users may download the voluminous
raw data sets for further examination and manipulation in a variety of
ways, such as importing the data into spreadsheets, data bases, graphic
presentations and statistical software programs.
In addition to information on race, gender, ethnicity and job
categories, the EEO-1 survey also includes data on the size, location
and industry of employer establishments. Employers with 100 or more
employees must file the annual survey, as well as employers with
federal government contracts of $50,000 or more and 50 or more
employees. Additional EEO-1 data and information, including
user-friendly html tables and historical data, can be found on the
EEOC’s web site at http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/statistics/employment/jobpat-eeo1/index.cfm.