Statistical analysis of religious discrimination complaints through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

This study is an analysis of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) data dealing with Religious Discrimination charges filed in the United States was from 1992 through 2012. This study has three implications for use in industry. First, the study will examine trends in merit-based discrimination charges by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code as listed in Table 2 (Appendix A) and also by geographical region to analyze whether a particular code (industry sector) and geographic region that exhibited higher rates of merit-based charges. Second, the study will analyze whether the EEOC conciliation process results in a particular religion having higher rates of successful or unsuccessful conciliations. Finally, the individual religious classifications were analyzed to determine increases in religious discrimination complaints. The findings concluded that the healthcare sector had a more significant increase in nonmeritorious religious discrimination charges than the other comparative categories. The data indicates that there was a significant increase in the Muslim religion conciliation failures while the other religious categories did not show a significant increase over the relevant period. For reasons that have yet to be identified, more claims are filed in the southern region than other geographical regions. In fact, the number of claims in the southern region is double or almost double the number of claims for each of the other regions for each type of claim. The results indicate that there has been a significant increase in the number of religious discrimination claims filed with the EEOC over the relevant period.