Census of Population and Housing, 1990 [United States]: Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) File (ICPSR 9929)

Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary: This file, the 1990 counterpart to the CENSUS OF POPULATION, 1980 [UNITED STATES]: EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY SPECIAL FILE (ICPSR 9026), is based on civilian labor force data from the 1990 Decennial Census and provides occupational and educational attainment data to support affirmative action planning for equal employment opportunity. The file consists of two sets of crosstabulations for the United States civilian labor force. The first set of tables provides data for 512 occupat... (more info)

Series: Census of Population and Housing, 1990 [United States] Series

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U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 1990 [UNITED STATES]: EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY (EEO) FILE. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 1992. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1993. doi:10.3886/ICPSR09929.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09929.v1

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Summary:   This file, the 1990 counterpart to the CENSUS OF POPULATION, 1980 [UNITED STATES]: EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY SPECIAL FILE (ICPSR 9026), is based on civilian labor force data from the 1990 Decennial Census and provides occupational and educational attainment data to support affirmative action planning for equal employment opportunity. The file consists of two sets of crosstabulations for the United States civilian labor force. The first set of tables provides data for 512 occupational categories by sex, race, and Hispanic origin. The second set presents educational attainment data for seven age groups by sex, race, and Hispanic origin. Both sets of tables are summarized geographically for the United States, all states and the District of Columbia, all counties and statistically equivalent entities, all Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Areas, and Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas, all places with populations of 50,000 or more, and all minor civil divisions with populations of 50,000 or more in 12 states.

Subject Terms:   Affirmative Action, census data, demographic characteristics, educational background, employment, Equal Employment Opportunity, ethnicity, gender, Hispanic origins, household composition, housing, housing conditions, labor force, occupations, population, race, states (USA)

Geographic Coverage:   Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, United States, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington

Time Period:  

• 1990

Date of Collection:  

• 1990

Universe:   The civilian labor force in the United States.

Data Types:   aggregate data

Data Collection Notes:

Each EEO logical record has a record size of 122,310 characters. The record is divided into 15 record segments of 8,154 characters, with each segment containing 300 characters of identification information followed by tables.

Sample:   The data contained in this file are based on the long-form questionnaire for the 1990 Census. This form was administered to approximately 17 percent of the housing units nationwide using a variable-rate sampling method based on geographic location and population.

Data Source:

self-enumerated questionnaires

Original ICPSR Release:  1993-04-09

Version History:

• 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 101 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
• 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 84 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
• 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 83 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
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• 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 81 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
• 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 80 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

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