Dear Organizations, Diversity, Inequality Research Community
After a hiatus of eight years the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is making its incredible data resources available again to the research community. These data will be found in Census Research Data Centers and access procedures are detailed below.
These are establishment and firm level data on employment race-gender-occupation composition over time as well as discrimination charges filed with the EEOC and state Fair Employment Practice Agencies. Data are geocoded to the address level and contain company names. At the end of this email you can find some published examples of the use of these data.
I am happy to answer any questions you have about the data that I can, but direct you to David Bowden at the EEOC for getting access and better answers.
With excitement,
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
University of Massachusetts, Center for Employment Equity
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datasets
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unit of observation
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population
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year range
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eeo-1 -private sector
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establishments and owning firm
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100+employees, 50 if federal contractors, [earlier years 50 and 25] some smaller organizations present
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annual 1966-2022
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eeo-3 -local unions
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local referral unions
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100+ members
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biannual 1998-2022
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eeo-4 - state & local governments
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functions within agencies
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100+ members, functions within agencies
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biannual 1973-2021
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eeo-5 -school systems
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school systems
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100+ members
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biannual 1992-2022
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discrimination charges
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individual complaints
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complaints to EEOC and State Fair Employment Practice Agencies, , including unstructured narratives for EEOC, but not FEPA charges
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continuous 1990-2022
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EEOC ANNOUNCEMENT
The EEOC is in the process of joining the Standard Application Process (SAP) portal hosted at https://www.researchdatagov.org/. Click or tap if you trust this link." rel="noopener">https://www.researchdatagov.org/. We welcome and encourage researchers to submit applications via email to data.access@eeoc.gov. For projects using only EEOC data (along with any user-supplied data), we will be able to fully review and approve email submissions.
Proposals using data from both the EEOC and other federal agencies (see researchdatagov.org for a list of participating agencies and datasets) will eventually need to be submitted to the SAP portal as well so that each relevant agency can review the application. That said, submitting the proposal via email should slightly expedite the timeline for accessing the data as we will be able to review the EEOC-relevant portions of the application. Copying the application to the online portal should be fairly straightforward.
Once an application has been approved, the researcher will be contacted by Census Bureau staff to complete the https://www.census.gov/topics/research/guidance/restricted-use-microdata/standard-application-process.html. Click or tap if you trust this link." rel="noopener">other steps for obtaining access to FSRDC facilities, including gaining Special Sworn Status. This process may be expedited for researchers who already have Special Sworn Status from a previous project.
Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, as well as any requests to be removed from this mailing list. We also encourage you to forward this information to other researchers.
Best,
David
David Bowden, PhD
Statistician, Data Policy and Access Team
Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
(202) 921-2775 | david.bowden@eeoc.gov
SOME EXEMPLAR PUBLICATIONS
Ferguson, John-Paul, and Rembrand Koning. 2018. "Firm Turnover and the Return of Racial Establishment Segregation." American Sociological Review 83(3): 445-474.
Hirsh, E. (2009). The Strength of Weak Enforcement: The Impact of Discrimination Charges, Legal Environments, and Organizational Conditions on Workplace Segregation. American Sociological Review, 74:245–271.
Huffman, Matt L., Philip N. Cohen, and Jessica Pearlman. 2010. "Engendering Change: Organizational Dynamics and Workplace Gender Desegregation, 1975–2005." Administrative Science Quarterly 55(2): 255-277.
Kalev, Alexandra, Frank Dobbin, and Erin Kelly. 2006. "Best Practices or Best Guesses? Assessing the Efficacy of Corporate Affirmative Action and Diversity Policies." American Sociological Review 71(4): 589-617.
Kerr, Brinck, Will Miller and Margaret Reid. 2000. "The Changing Face of Urban Bureaucracy: Is There Inter-Ethnic Competition in Municipal Government Jobs?" Urban Affairs Review, 35(6): 770-793.
Stainback, Kevin, Sibyl Kleiner, and Sheryl Skaggs. 2016. "Women in power: Undoing or redoing the gendered organization?." Gender & Society 30, 1: 109-135.
Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald and Carly McCann, C. 2021. Employment discrimination charge rates: Variation and sources. Socius, 7, 23780231211064389.
Zhang, Letian. 2021. "Shaking Things Up: Disruptive Events and Inequality." American Journal of Sociology 127(2): 376-440.
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Letian Zhang
Harvard Business School
Boston MA
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