EEOC Explore: Data Query & Mapping Tool

Advertisement “EEOC Explore” Tool Launched to Provide Greater Transparency and Access to Diversity Data – Employers Beware Overreaching and Generalizations Friday, December 18, 2020 Earlier this month, the EEOC launched EEOC Explore, “an interactive data query and mapping tool” that gives users access to aggregate data on more than 73,000 employers and 56 million employees across the United States.  According to the agency, EEOC Explore “enables stakeholders to explore and compare data trends across a number of categories, including location, sex, race and ethnicity, and industry sector without the need for experience in computer programming or statistical analysis.” In a press release,  (https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-launches-new-data-tool-track-employment-trends) the EEOC’s Chief Data Officer Dr. Chris Haffer, stated that the tool will make “tracking employment trends as simple as a few clicks, particularly for those analyzing job patterns for minorities and women in private industry.”  The EEOC’s Chair, Janet Dhillon, also emphasized the potential benefits of Explore in eradicating workplace bias, by “mak[ing] it easier to navigate the agency’s aggregate EEO-1 data for everyone interested in advancing equal opportunity for all in the workplace.”