This is the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) Fiscal Year 2001 Federal Equal Opportunity Recruitment Program (FEORP) report. The FEORP is an important recruiting initiative designed to eliminate underrepresentation of minorities and women in the Federal service. It was established and assigned to OPM by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. 7201). We believe that this report should be used by Federal agencies as a resource to develop effective recruitment and retention strategies to increase workforce diversity. We therefore encourage agency heads to ensure wide distribution of this report. It may be viewed and downloaded from OPM’s website at http://www5.opm.gov/feorp01.

Some findings in the FY 2001 FEORP report are:

• Overall, minority groups are better represented in the Federal workforce (FW) than in the Civilian Labor Force (CLF) with one exception -- Hispanics.
• Despite a trend of increased Hispanic representation, Hispanics remain the only underrepresented minority group in the Federal Government. Hispanics represent 6.7 percent of the Federal workforce compared to 11.9 percent of the CLF.
• The Federal Government also lags behind the CLF in the employment of women, 44.0 to 46.5 percent.
• The representation of minorities in GSR grades 13-15 rose 4,330, from 61,376 (19.2 percent) in 2000 to 65,706 (19.9 percent) in 2001.
• The representation of women in GSR grades 13-15 increased by 6,435, from 98,190 (30.7 percent) in 2000 to 104,625 (31.7 percent) in 2001.
• The representation of Blacks and Hispanics at Senior Pay levels decreased. Blacks decreased by 23, from 1,037 (7.1 percent) in FY 2000 to 1,014 (7.0 percent) in FY 2001. Hispanics decreased by 18, from 459 (3.1 percent) in FY 2000 to 441 (3.0 percent) in FY 2001.