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Occupational Employment in Private Industry by Race/Ethnic Group/Sex, and by Industry, United States, 2002

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

ALL INDUSTRIES (198158 UNITS)

Race / Ethnic Group / Sex Total Employment Officials & Managers Professionals Technicians Sales Workers Office & Clerical Workers Craft Workers Operatives Laborers Service Workers
NUMBER EMPLOYED
ALL EMPLOYEES 42,635,179 4,621,782 7,143,245 2,602,583 5,220,502 6,047,645 3,213,242 5,344,407 3,288,231 5,153,542
Male 22,364,145 3,019,437 3,424,531 1,384,854 2,313,632 1,224,090 2,793,954 3,859,765 2,147,760 2,196,122
Female 20,271,034 1,602,345 3,718,714 1,217,729 2,906,870 4,823,555 419,288 1,484,642 1,140,471 2,957,420
WHITE 29,865,211 3,917,976 5,707,612 1,938,191 3,815,715 4,162,523 2,457,173 3,407,995 1,696,248 2,761,778
Male 15,868,189 2,601,000 2,770,516 1,054,571 1,741,906 792,506 2,165,770 2,533,617 1,110,648 1,097,655
Female 13,997,022 1,316,976 2,937,096 883,620 2,073,809 3,370,017 291,403 874,378 585,600 1,664,123
MINORITY 12,769,968 703,806 1,435,633 664,392 1,404,787 1,885,122 756,069 1,936,412 1,591,983 2,391,764
Male 6,495,956 418,437 654,015 330,283 571,726 431,584 628,184 1,326,148 1,037,112 1,098,467
Female 6,274,012 285,369 781,618 334,109 833,061 1,453,538 127,885 610,264 554,871 1,293,297
BLACK 5,925,211 302,791 499,923 310,513 688,401 1,031,518 312,975 930,816 616,279 1,231,995
Male 2,681,610 159,862 170,001 122,840 258,714 202,693 251,406 620,574 398,932 496,588
Female 3,243,601 142,929 329,922 187,673 429,687 828,825 61,569 310,242 217,347 735,407
HISPANIC 4,663,995 223,581 286,807 182,729 508,971 589,139 340,470 772,885 839,075 920,338
Male 2,678,333 144,047 139,932 108,318 223,626 151,589 296,215 562,478 559,550 492,578
Female 1,985,662 79,534 146,875 74,411 285,345 437,550 44,255 210,407 279,525 427,760
ASIAN/PACIFIC ISLANDER 1,927,569 159,582 619,961 154,057 172,795 227,927 79,188 195,742 112,564 205,753
Male 1,002,011 103,138 329,719 90,490 75,917 67,455 60,165 116,808 63,073 95,246
Female 925,558 56,444 290,242 63,567 96,878 160,472 19,023 78,934 49,491 110,507
AMIND/ALASKAN NATIVE 253,193 17,852 28,942 17,093 34,620 36,538 23,436 36,969 24,065 33,678
Male 134,002 11,390 14,363 8,635 13,469 9,847 20,398 26,288 15,557 14,055
Female 119,191 6,462 14,579 8,458 21,151 26,691 3,038 10,681 8,508 19,623
PARTICIPATION RATE
ALL EMPLOYEES 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Male 52.5 65.3 47.9 53.2 44.3 20.2 87.0 72.2 65.3 42.6
Female 47.5 34.7 52.1 46.8 55.7 79.8 13.0 27.8 34.7 57.4
WHITE 70.0 84.8 79.9 74.5 73.1 68.8 76.5 63.8 51.6 53.6
Male 37.2 56.3 38.8 40.5 33.4 13.1 67.4 47.4 33.8 21.3
Female 32.8 28.5 41.1 34.0 39.7 55.7 9.1 16.4 17.8 32.3
MINORITY 30.0 15.2 20.1 25.5 26.9 31.2 23.5 36.2 48.4 46.4 Male 15.2 9.1 9.2 12.7 11.0 7.1 19.5 24.8 31.5 21.3 Female 14.7 6.2 10.9 12.8 16.0 24.0 4.0 11.4 16.9 25.1
BLACK 13.9 6.6 7.0 11.9 13.2 17.1 9.7 17.4 18.7 23.9
Male 6.3 3.5 2.4 4.7 5.0 3.4 7.8 11.6 12.1 9.6
Female 7.6 3.1 4.6 7.2 8.2 13.7 1.9 5.8 6.6 14.3
HISPANIC 10.9 4.8 4.0 7.0 9.7 9.7 10.6 14.5 25.5 17.9
Male 6.3 3.1 2.0 4.2 4.3 2.5 9.2 10.5 17.0 9.6
Female 4.7 1.7 2.1 2.9 5.5 7.2 1.4 3.9 8.5 8.3
ASIAN/PACIFIC ISLANDER 4.5 3.5 8.7 5.9 3.3 3.8 2.5 3.7 3.4 4.0
Male 2.4 2.2 4.6 3.5 1.5 1.1 1.9 2.2 1.9 1.8
Female 2.2 1.2 4.1 2.4 1.9 2.7 0.6 1.5 1.5 2.1
AMIND/ALASKAN NATIVE 0.6 0.4 0.4 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7
Male 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.3
Female 0.3 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4
OCCUPATIONAL DISTRIBUTION
ALL EMPLOYEES 100.0 10.8 16.8 6.1 12.2 14.2 7.5 12.5 7.7 12.1
Male 100.0 13.5 15.3 6.2 10.3 5.5 12.5 17.3 9.6 9.8
Female 100.0 7.9 18.3 6.0 14.3 23.8 2.1 7.3 5.6 14.6
WHITE 100.0 13.1 19.1 6.5 12.8 13.9 8.2 11.4 5.7 9.2
Male 100.0 16.4 17.5 6.6 11.0 5.0 13.6 16.0 7.0 6.9
Female 100.0 9.4 21.0 6.3 14.8 24.1 2.1 6.2 4.2 11.9
MINORITY 100.0 5.5 11.2 5.2 11.0 14.8 5.9 15.2 12.5 18.7 Male 100.0 6.4 10.1 5.1 8.8 6.6 9.7 20.4 16.0 16.9 Female 100.0 4.5 12.5 5.3 13.3 23.2 2.0 9.7 8.8 20.6
BLACK 100.0 5.1 8.4 5.2 11.6 17.4 5.3 15.7 10.4 20.8
Male 100.0 6.0 6.3 4.6 9.6 7.6 9.4 23.1 14.9 18.5
Female 100.0 4.4 10.2 5.8 13.2 25.6 1.9 9.6 6.7 22.7
HISPANIC 100.0 4.8 6.1 3.9 10.9 12.6 7.3 16.6 18.0 19.7
Male 100.0 5.4 5.2 4.0 8.3 5.7 11.1 21.0 20.9 18.4
Female 100.0 4.0 7.4 3.7 14.4 22.0 2.2 10.6 14.1 21.5
ASIAN/PACIFIC ISLANDER 100.0 8.3 32.2 8.0 9.0 11.8 4.1 10.2 5.8 10.7
Male 100.0 10.3 32.9 9.0 7.6 6.7 6.0 11.7 6.3 9.5
Female 100.0 6.1 31.4 6.9 10.5 17.3 2.1 8.5 5.3 11.9
AMIND/ALASKAN NATIVE 100.0 7.1 11.4 6.8 13.7 14.4 9.3 14.6 9.5 13.3
Male 100.0 8.5 10.7 6.4 10.1 7.3 15.2 19.6 11.6 10.5
Female 100.0 5.4 12.2 7.1 17.7 22.4 2.5 9.0 7.1 16.5

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