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6 Conclusions and Recommendations
Pages 86-92

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From page 86...
... We have considered currently available and potential data sources, as well as methodologies and statistical techniques for the measurement and collection of such employer pay data. The panel's recommendations are made with an appreciation that such a new data collection would be a significant undertaking for EEOC and that it could well generate an increased reporting burden on some employers, and so any new data collection would have to be fully justified.
From page 87...
... Equal Em ployment Opportunity Commission should prepare a comprehensive plan for use of earnings data before initiating any data collection. PILOT STUDY With a comprehensive plan in hand, the next logical step would be to test it.
From page 88...
... Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, and the U.S. Department of Justice complete the comprehensive plan for use of earnings data, the agencies should initiate a pilot study to test the collection instrument and the plan for the use of the data.
From page 89...
... MEASURES FOR COLLECTION OF PAY INFORMATION Several possible measures of pay information could be used for the possible new data collection, ranging from pay bands (the measure now used on the EEO-4 form) to rates of pay (e.g., annual salaries, hourly wages, etc.)
From page 90...
... ACCESS TO PAY INFORMATION IN A PROTECTED ENVIRONMENT If the pilot tests and other developmental activities recommended in this report bear fruit and if EEOC begins collection of pay data from employers, the data will comprise an important new source of information for research and analytical purposes, in addition to their intended use in enforcement. We expect that there will be great demand on the part of other federal agencies, researchers, analysts, compensation-setting bodies, and others for access to these powerful new data.
From page 91...
... Though there have been no known breaches of the EEOC's ability to protect EEO data, the consequences of a breach in the protection of data provided in confidence are, as other federal agencies have discovered, painful and of lasting consequence. Thus, EEOC should consider providing the same protections to the organizations and individuals that become parties to data-sharing agreements as it now has with its own employees.


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