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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 11.
Published in final edited form as: Race Soc Probl. 2010 Mar 1;2(1):19–30. doi: 10.1007/s12552-010-9024-0

Table 2.

Distribution of workplace discrimination types and percent frequency, by race/ethnicity

Total sample (N = 664, %) Whites (n = 260, %) Asian Pacific Islanders (n = 185, %) African Americans (n = 66, %) Latino (n = 105, %) Mixed and other (n = 48, %) p
Types of workplace discrimination
Race/ethnicity
 No 91.4 96.9 88.6 80.3 90.5 89.6 <.001
 Yes 8.6 3.1 11.4 19.7 9.5 10.4
Nationality
 No 93.7 98.5 89.2 86.4 95.2 91.7 <.001
 Yes 6.3 1.5 10.8 13.6 4.8 8.3
Gender
 No 95.0 95.0 95.1 97.0 94.3 93.8 .94
 Yes 5.0 5.0 4.9 3.0 5.7 6.2
Sexual orientation
 No 98.5 98.8 98.9 97.0 100.0 93.8 <.05
 Yes 1.5 1.2 1.1 3.0 0.0 6.2
Age
 No 94.0 94.2 93.5 89.4 96.2 95.8 .44
 Yes 6.0 5.8 6.5 10.6 3.8 4.2
Percent frequency of workplace discrimination
Hiring
 Never 91.3 95.0 88.1 84.8 90.5 93.8
 Sometimes 3.6 1.9 5.9 6.1 3.8 0.0 .11
 Often 5.1 3.1 5.9 9.1 5.4 6.2
Evaluation
 Never 92.6 95.0 89.7 89.4 93.3 93.8
 Sometimes 3.3 2.7 4.9 4.5 1.0 4.2 .36
 Often 4.1 2.3 5.4 6.1 5.7 2.1
Work assignments
 Never 89.9 92.3 87.6 86.4 90.5 89.6
 Sometimes 2.9 2.3 4.3 3.0 1.9 2.1 .75
 Often 7.2 5.4 8.1 10.6 7.6 8.3
Promotion
 Never 94.0 94.6 91.9 97.0 93.3 95.8
 Sometimes 1.8 1.5 3.2 0.0 1.0 2.1 .69
 Often 4.2 3.8 4.9 3.0 5.7 2.1
Day-to-day interactions
 Never 87.3 90.4 85.9 75.8 89.5 87.5
 Sometimes 4.2 1.9 6.5 9.1 3.8 12.1 <.05
 Often 8.4 7.7 7.6 15.2 6.7 10.4

Comparisons for between-group differences, based on χ2 tests

Bold value indicates that significant at the p < .05 level