EEO Job Categories
 The Job Category guide serves as a crosswalk between the 2000 Census job codes and the ten (10) job categories on the Employer Information Report EEO-1, and is designed to assist employers in correctly classifying employees according to the ten (10) job categories on the EEO-1 report. Each job category is explained in the EEO-1 Instruction Booklet with a definition and examples of the types of jobs included in the category.
The Appendix lists the 3-digit Census job codes and occupational titles [with
Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) codes] by EEO-1 job categories.
The reference for the Census job codes and occupational titles is the
2000 Census of Population Occupational Classification System
released by the Bureau of the Census.
In the practical application of these documents, the employer should:
Report an employee who performs work in two (2) or more jobs only once
according to the job in which the employee spends the most time.
Report employees in the job in which they are actually working. Do not
report them in the job in which they may have been trained, if that is
different. For example, an employee trained as an accountant, but who is
working as a bookkeeper or accounting clerk, must be reported in the
‘Administrative Support’ job category.
Report employees by actual major job activity according to the EEO-1
definitions, not by company job titles.
Unresolved questions about difficult assignments may be directed to the
EEO-1 Coordinator in the Program Research and Surveys Division, EEOC, at
866-286-6440 (toll-free), (202) 663-7185 (fax), or
e1.techassistance@eeoc.gov.
SPECIFIC JOB CATEGORIES
For a detailed description of the EEO-1 job categories, please refer to the EEO-1
Instruction Booklet, Part 5, Description of Job Categories.
Note: First-line supervisors, unless specifically listed in the Appendix under
‘Executive/Senior Level Officials and Managers’ or ‘First/Mid Level Officials
and Managers’, who engage in the same activities as the employees they
supervise should be reported in the same job category as the employees
they supervise.
Job Patterns For Minorities And Women In Private Industry (EEO-1)
As part of its mandate under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requires periodic reports from public and private employers, and unions and labor organizations which indicate the composition of their work forces by sex and by race/ethnic category. Key among these reports is the EEO-1, which is collected annually from Private employers with 100 or more employees or federal contractors with 50 more employees. In 2003, over 40,000 employers with more than 50 million employees filed EEO-1 reports.
The confidentiality provision which governs release of these data (Section 709 (e) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended by the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972) prohibits release of individually identifiable information. However, data in aggregated format for major geographic areas and by industry group for private employers (EEO-1) are available. The following tables are national aggregations by those industries with the greatest employment.
SIC Industry definitions and codes used in the tables from 1998 through 2002 are based upon those given in the 1987 Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Manual. NAICS Industry definitions and codes used in the 2003 tables are based upon those given in the 1997 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Manual.
Official, numerical classification systems (Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)), enable the federal government to collect and classify data on business activity in the U.S. A modified form, called SITC, pertains to international business enterprises.
The old hierarchy, SIC, allows related industries to be classed close together.
Example: The SIC code for printing, publishing and allied industries is 27. Getting more specific, the industry group number for newspapers is 271; periodicals is 272, and books is 273. Adding another digit(s) would allow one to focus even more specifically to special types of book publishing.
Most of the SIC codes you will see will be at the 4-digit level of specificity.
The hierarchical NAICS system replaced the 1987 SIC in 1997 to accommodate new industries and harmonize the separate schemes used by the U.S., Canada and Mexico. While you may see resources that use either scheme, the government officially converted to NAICS with the release of the 1999 Economic Census. Codes at the 6-digit level are typical.
North American Product Classification System
NAPCS is a new system under development to improve product data for service industries.
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