Message-ID: <15464815.1075858754350.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 18:27:05 -0700 (PDT) From: sally.beck@enron.com To: christina.valdez@enron.com Subject: FW: Background Statistics for Discussion by the Inclusiveness Committee Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Beck, Sally X-To: Valdez, Christina X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \SBECK (Non-Privileged)\Sent Items X-Origin: Beck-S X-FileName: SBECK (Non-Privileged).pst Please print message and attachment for me. Thanks. --Sally (then message can be deleted) -----Original Message----- From: Staman_Ogilvie@hines.com@ENRON Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 3:32 PM To: achae@gardere.com; frank.michel@chron.com; Beck, Sally; olgamoya@stcl.edu; flw1@ntrs.com; acalloway@hach.org; randyvelarde@theplazagrp.com Subject: Background Statistics for Discussion by the Inclusiveness Committee I attach an Excel file with some statistics on minority owned businesses in Harris County. A few interesting facts that we can conclude from the charts are: Minorities represent 57% of Harris County population. Minorities own 23% of the businesses which have employees (i.e., ignoring one-person businesses). Minority firms on average each have 40% as many employees firms of all ownerships in Harris County. Minority owned businesses generate 5% of all the sales of Harris County based firms. Revenue per employee is about half as great in minority owned businesses as in all businesses and compensation per employee (at around $18,700 each) is about 60% as great at minority firms as at all firms. Something that is not disclosed in the numbers but which would be interesting to know is how much higher a fraction of company employees are minorities in minority owned businesses. Does anyone have any information on that subject? A couple of other interesting points that I have come across include: Texas is second among the states in the fraction of firms that are minority owned (California is first). Harris County is third among all counties in the U.S. in the fraction that its minority owned firms compose of all statewide minority owned firms. We can discuss the implications of all this information when we are together again next week. (See attached file: Harris County Minority Businesses.xls) - Harris County Minority Businesses.xls