Revised City of South Bend Disparity Study Report

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City of South Bend Disparity Study 2020 • We added all M/WBE firms from the Final Contract Data File we constructed for all prime and subcontractors, which provided our race and gender assignments and industry codes. • We culled through the list to eliminate any duplicates. • Finally, we limited the list to those firms within the parameters set by the City's product and geographic market. The resulting list of minority- and woman -owned businesses is comprehensive. We took the following steps to develop the Dun & Bradstreet/Hoovers Data- base: • We purchased the firm information from Hoovers for the firms in the NAICS codes located in the City's market area in order to form the Dun & Bradstreet/Hoovers Database. Hoovers, a Dun & Bradstreet company, maintains a comprehensive, extensive and regularly updated listing of all firms conducting business. The database includes a vast amount of information on each firm, including location and detailed industry codes, and is the broadest publicly available data source for firm information. We limited our purchase to those firms within the City's product and geographic market. In the initial download, the data from Hoovers simply identify a firm as being minority-owned .126 However, the company does keep detailed information on ethnicity (i.e., is the minority firm owner Black, Hispanic, Asian, or Native American). Therefore, our next step was to obtain this additional information from Hoovers. We merged these three databases to form the Master Business Availability List, an accurate estimate of firm availability to the City. Tables 4-8 through 4- 10 present data on: The unweighted availability by race and gender and by NAICS codes in the City's constrained product markets; The weights used to adjust the unweighted numbers 127; and • The final estimates of the weighted averages of the individual 6 -digit level availability estimates in the City's market areas. If a race- and gender -conscious program is adopted, the unweighted availabil- ity estimates can by used by the City as the starting point to set contract goals, 126. The variable is labeled: "is Minority Owned" and values for the variable can be either "yes" or" no". 127. These weights are equivalent to the share of contract dollars presented in the previoussection. 62 01010 Colette Holt & Associates, All Rights Reserved.