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Census 2000 database available from HR Alternatives Inc.
(50 states plus District of Columbia, by County, for 472 Standard Occupations)
The Census 2000 data for 472 Occupation Codes for each County¹ in 50 States, plus the District of Columbia, has been downloaded and reformatted by Sound Solutions, Inc. into an easy to search/use Access database and is available at a cost of $100.00 (plus tax and shipping) per copy. Filter down to the States/Counties and Occupational Codes you need, then output the custom table to another database or other electronic format (repeat the process as many times as needed). A "demo" database is available upon request.
Click here to View the 472 Standard Occupational Classifications (SOC) used in Census 2000: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/eeoindex/occcategories.pdf
¹Census Bureau reporting note: Percentages may not add to total due to rounding. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, non-sampling error, and accuracy of the data, see http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2000/doc/sf3chap8.pdf.
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Affirmative Action Plans (AAP's) and the Census data
Executive Order 11246 (originally signed in 1965 by Lyndon Johnson), set the initial requirements for the development of "Affirmative Action Plans" by organizations doing business directly or indirectly with the Federal Government. Compliance monitoring is carried out by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) within the Department of Labor's Employment Standards Division (http://www.dol.gov/esa/ofccp/index.htm).
Affirmative Action Plan "Availability Analysis" and Census 2000 Data
One of the requirements of an affirmative action program is determining availability of qualified minorities or women for job openings. Availability is defined as "an estimate of the number of qualified minorities or women available for employment in a given job group, expressed as a percentage of all qualified persons available for employment in the job group." OFCCP regulations further require that the organizations must use the most current and discrete statistical information available to derive availability figures.
In the development of (AAP's) Organizations frequently use U.S. Census Bureau data to determine availability and the OFCCP relies on Census data to assess whether the organizations availability determination is reasonable. The OFCCP is part of a Federal Consortium consisting of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Department of Justice, and the Office of Personnel Management that entered into an agreement with the Census Bureau to construct the Census 2000 Special EEO File according to specifications developed by the Consortium. The Census 2000 Special EEO File was released to the public on December 29, 2003. This data file, which contains information on 472 occupations has been downloaded and formatted for use by organizations in a Microsoft Access database (2000 file format) by Sound Solutions, Inc.
According to the OFCCP, organizations who use the Special EEO File to determine availability may begin using data from the Census 2000 Special EEO File immediately. OFCCP will provide contractors using Special EEO File census data time to update their AAPs, however, OFCCP will expect all contractors who use census data to determine availability estimates to use data from the Census 2000 Special EEO file to complete their AAPs for 2005. OFCCP has stated it will begin to use data from the Census 2000 Special EEO File to assess the reasonableness of an organizations availability determinations beginning with plan years that commence on or after January 1, 2005.
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EEO Logic Equal Employment
Advisory Council
American Association for Affirmative
Action
Note: The EEAC (Equal Employment Advisory Council) has a publication that may be of value when utilizing the database from Sound Solutions, Inc. The following is a description of the publication available through that organization:
"Our new 330-page Index of Census 2000 Industries and Occupations contains a comprehensive directory of more than 21,000 specific industry titles and 30,000 specific occupation titles and shows how these individual titles were grouped into the industry and occupation classifications used in the 2000 Special EEO File. The manual will be a handy resource for anyone involved in determining which occupations and industries are most appropriate for their EEO/AA and diversity benchmarking efforts."
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