Never

Industries, only educational services and medical and other health services have high penetration as does the DOL. theless, this is a significant result. Finally, based on utilization ratios, twelve industries are better than the DOL national office, while thirty-eight are worse. In conclusion, a comparison of the status of blacks in the DOL national office in October 1970 with the status of blacks in Washington-area private industry in December 1966 shows that the DOL, with nearly a four year time advantage, lags significantly behind the industries with the better EEO records. This is supported by the above statistics and by the fact that, of the twenty-four industries with penetration rates higher than the 1967 averegé Washington penetration rate of .2400, all but one have higher occupation ratios than the DOL.

The second comparison to be made is between the status of blacks working in the DOL nationwide in October 1970 and the status of blacks in private industry nationwide in December 1966. This comparison is severely weakened by the following

Lactors: (1) again there is nearly a four year time lag between the DOL data and the industry data; (2) a different benchwork penetration rate is used for each industry (the benchmark is determined by a weighted average of the average penetration rates of the SMSA's where the industries are located); (3) n10 benchmark penctration rate has been established for comparing the DOL; and (4) a comparison of the DOL with all of private

industry nationwide involves using an extremely low standard which, in fact, is the raison d'etre of a large portion of

the federal civil rights effort, including the Office of Federal Contract Compliance. Nevertheless, we can consider the following statistics depicting the status of blacks in the DOL nationwide:

Of the sixty-seven major industries in the U.S. in

December 1966, forty-eight have higher occupation ratios than the DOL; only nineteen are worse. Most of these, however have considerably lower black penetration than does the DOL. But looking at those industries with penetration rates greater than .2000, there are ten such industries, and all but one have occupation ratios higher than the DOL. Again, of the seventeen Industries with penetration rates greater than .1500, all but three have higher occupation ratios than the DOL. Finally, of the twenty-seven industries with penetration rates greater than .1120, which equals the percent blacks comprise of the national population, all but six have higher occupation ratios than the DOL. In conclusion, little can be affirmatively stated regarding a comparison of the DOL nationwide with private industry nationwide. It appears, however, that private indus

try

is severely deficient with respect to black representation in its workforce, while the DOL is deficient with respect to

the occupation distribution of the rather significant

number of blacks comprising its workforce.

Tom Ault

SECRETARY'S EEO TASK FORCE

Appendix A-4

Statistical Tables

Table of Contents

The Statistical tables are divided into four series

I.

A.

Series 1 Tables prepared from the data in series
2-4

Page Number

241

B.

Series 2

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Distributions of employees by grade and salary, Department wide and within administrations and regions

250

C.

Series 3 Distributions of employees by length of
services, time-in-grade, and age

422

D.

Series 4

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Contains the data on education

493

Technical Notes

1.

2.

3.

The data used to calculate the tables in Series 1 comes from the tables in series 2-4.

The tables in Series 2-4 are copied from a computer output developed for this study by Dick Jones of the Departmental Data Processing Center. Copies and explanations of the programs are available in the EEO office.

Though a complete explanation of methodology used in developing the data used in Series 2-4 is available in the EEO office, several items merit discussion at this point.

A. The data used in the tables (except for the data on education) come from the current personnel tape in the ADP system.

B. Employees with no listing for service or age were excluded from all tabulations.

C. Employees with no time-in-grade data were excluded from the time-in-grade tables in series 3. In Series 2 an arbitrary time-in-grade date was calculated for use in the time-in-grade tables. Consequently the time-in-grade data in Series 2 & 3 differ somewhat The data in series 3 are the more reliable of the two sets.