Return to Home PageThe EPCA provides the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) assessment of the performance of selected federal agency's EEO program during FY 2006. The EEOC has compiled the FY 2006 EPCA for the 58 federal agencies which were profiled in our Annual Report on the Federal Work Force (FY 2006). The EPCA is divided into two sections: (1) EEO program activities indicators, and (2) EEO program outcome indicators.
In the EEO program activities section, the EPCA evaluates agencies on selected indicators under each model element of MD-715, and provides an unweighted score based upon the agencies' performance in achieving each indicator. The agencies' total score is calculated by converting the unweighted score for each of the six elements to a weighted score using a 200-point scale and then adding the weighted scores of each section using a 1200-point scale.
For a more detailed description of the formula for the weighted scores, please consult the Glossary. To see a comparison of the agencies' weighted scores, including total score and scores for each element of MD-715, see the FY 2006 EPCA Ranking Tables.
In the EEO program outcome indicators section, the EPCA includes selected responses from the United States Office of Personnel Management's FY 2006 Federal Human Capital Survey. The EEOC is using the employees' responses to five survey questions as "proxy outcome indicators" to gauge each agency's progress in creating a fair and inclusive workplace.
This outcome indicators section also provides selected workforce data for each agency during FY 2006, comparing the participation rates of persons with targeted disabilities to the rest of the federal government, and comparing all EEO groups in the agency's total workforce and in the agency's top three mission-critical occupations, if available, to the relevant rates in the Civilian Labor Force (CLF).
In addition, the EPCA provides a promotion analysis, which is presented using odds ratio - an additional tool to assess each agency's workforce data. The odds ratio compares whether the probability of being promoted to the GS-15 or Senior Executive Service grade level is the same for a particular EEO group as it is for the rest of the workforce. The closer the odds ratio is to "one" suggests that a promotion is as equally likely for that EEO group as it is for the rest of the agency workforce.
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