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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED161567 AUTHOR: Gerlach, Ernest J.
TITLE: Indian Employment in New Mexico State Government:
1977.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1977
NOTE: 67 p.; For related document, see RC 010 712
ABSTRACT: To update a 1974 report on the status of American
Indian employment in the state of New Mexico, a 1977 study
on the composition of the state's work force was
undertaken,
including descriptions of the overall distribution of state
employment by job category, grade, and salary level.
Despite
progress, it was found that: (1) Indians still constituted
only about 2% of the state's merit system work force; (2)
Indian employees continued to be concentrated in a few
agencies, with 60% working for the Employment Security
Commission, Health and Social Services, and the Highway
Department; (3) few Indians were employed even in areas
where large proportions of Indians resided; (4) American
Indians continued to be concentrated in low skill, low pay
jobs with little upward mobility (almost 40% of all Indian
employees were classified as paraprofessionals or in
service/maintenance); (5) improvements notwithstanding, a
disproportionate number of Indian employees remained
concentrated in lower salary levels and in lowest grade
levels (more than 72% of Indian employees were between
grade
levels 01 and 10 compared to almost 55% of entire work
force, and only 9% were at or above level 15 compared to
more than 20% of total employees). The report contains
numerous statistical comparisons broken down by
race/ethnicity and sex. (RS)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Black-Employment; Employed-Women;
Geographic-Distribution; Job-Analysis; Minority-Groups;
Occupational-Mobility; Paraprofessional-Personnel; Racial
Distribution; Salaries-; State-Agencies
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Affirmative-Action; *American-Indians;
*Employment-Patterns; *Government-Employees; *Occupational
Information; *State-Government
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