EEO-5: Public Elementary and Secondary School Employment Information

The EEOC collects labor force data from public elementary and secondary school districts with 100 or more employees within 50 U.S. states and District of Columbia. The reports provide information on their employment totals, employees' job category, and sex and race/ethnic groups as of October 1 of the survey year. The EEO-5 survey is conducted biennially in even-numbered year. You can see a list of the annual tables from the EEO-5 dataset.

Although these data were mandated to be collected starting in 1974, data survives only since 1992. Even given this loss of the historical record, the current panel contains 63,000 collective observations, and accumulates approximately 6,000 additional observations every two years. These data have considerable detail on the occupational composition of schools and are potentially useful for studying not only sex by race employment patterns but also the changes in the organization of school employment in considerable detail. The first article using these data were published in 2014 (Kerr, Brinck,  Miller, Kerr, and Deshommes 2014; Kerr, Kerr, and Miller 2014).

Dataset: 

EEO-5