http://www.fedscope.opm.gov/

I did a quick cross-check between the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)’s federal worker database and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s recently released report on the Federal Workforce.  Because OPM’s database is transparent to a high level of detail and kept current with quarterly data, I’d give more credibility to it over the opaque annual report issued by the EEOC.

To which I say, in comparison to OPM’s personnel database, the EEOC report on federal diversity appears to be inflated by as many as 50,000 minorities.   I’ll of course need to do a little more research to explain my findings and document the methodology used.

FedScope is a powerful tool, and one highlighted on DATA.GOV.  This utility allows users to view highly detailed information crosstabulated on agencies by area, GS level, occupation, race, ethnicity and more.  With so many aspects, it’s not intuitive, but once a researcher figures out how to drill down and extract information, invaluable.