Additional E-Mail Sent Regarding 2010 EEO Census File

On December 17th, staff from the EEOC sent an e-mail to subscribers regarding additional details about the 2010 EEO census file. Below are the highlights of the e-mail. 

Summary:

• Informal update on the status of the American Community Survey 2010 Special EEO Tabulation from the Census Bureau. These updates will continue, as needed, until the EEO (Tabulation) File and its accompanying means for accessing data from the File are released in the fall of 2012. This information is unofficial and provisional, as it will only be finalized shortly before the Census Bureau releases the EEO File and its mechanism for accessing it.
• As for the information on “disability,” it could not be made part of this upcoming File.
• As mentioned in the first update, the occupational crosswalks for the 2010 File will be based in the 2010 Standard Occupational Classification System.
• In the works is a proposed crosswalk from the 840 detailed occupational codes contained in the SOC system to the approximately 479 detailed occupational categories coded by and available from Census for worksite data. (There will an additional category for residence data.) This same attachment contains the crosswalks between and among the various occupational groupings required for various purposes.
• In addition to the primary SOC to Census crosswalk, the attachment shows the proposed crosswalks for the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) job categories; the EEOC’s nine EEO-1 form categories; the EEOC’s nine MD-715 Federal Sector categories; and the generally useful 14 EEO categories, which can be easily collapsed into the nine EEO-1 categories.
• The Census codes will, more likely than not, consist of four digit codes.
• In addition to the standard numbers and derived percents, the EEO File will have a standard-error or margin-of-error available for every number or estimate. 
• It now appears that Combined Statistical Areas (CBA’s) will not be provided for several reasons, including the fact that they can be constructed from lower level geographies.
• The mechanism for accessing and tabulating information from the Census 2010 Special EEO File will be created by the Census Bureau for the Federal Consortium of civil rights agencies. It will be part of the American FactFinder and will have a new look and feel, be more powerful, and - at the same time - be more user-friendly. 
• The basic EEO tables produced will probably consist of a standard or user-modified table of numbers and table of percents, just as with the previous 2000 EEO File Data Tool(http://www.census.gov/eeo2000/index.html). It will most likely be able produce an additional table of standard-errors or margins-of-error that correspond to each of the estimates contained in the table of numbers.
• In addition to the general tools that are available to everyone for accessing and using the data in the EEO Special File, there will be query and report tools created by the various civil rights agencies that will make it easy for users of the File to find and produce what they need. Traditional users of the EEO Special File will be guided by American FactFinder to special sections that have been developed for them by the Federal civil rights agencies. In essence, the features and capabilities of the previous 2000 Special EEO File Data Tool will be incorporated in FactFinder through special EEO sections, which will provide steps for the EEO community to find, format, print and download what they need.

Despite all of the preceding information on the current status of the Special EEO File and the means for accessing it, the entire project is still a work-in-progress.