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Appendix C: Data Storage, Security, and Management Procedures
Pages 347-350

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... FILE STRUCTURE The data files delivered by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) came in two primary formats: data from filers and data from individual establishments.
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... Since EEOC's primary planned use of the data files was with regard to establishments (where enforcement efforts are targeted) , and because of the difficulties in properly identifying firms, this report primarily focused on establishments.
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... • Some inconsistencies appeared in the data, such as the reporting of non-zero numbers of employees with zero hours worked reported, non-zero hours worked with zero employee counts reported, dis crepancies between Components 1 and 2, and discrepancies be tween 2017 and 2018 in the Component 2 data. The discrepancies between 2017 and 2018 data could reflect real change over time (though the size of the differences was sometimes large enough to make that highly unlikely)
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... Note, however, that table numbering changed when the report authors extracted the key data to be discussed in the report; a crosswalk provided in the zip files compares the original and final table numbers. The zip file also contains technical memos describing how data merges were performed, how the flag variables were created to filter out problematic data, and a report on the geocoding performed to support matching establishments across time.
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