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M/WBE Availability in the City of Cleveland’s Market Area
putative nonminority Hispanic-owned firms, Asian/Pacific Islander-owned firms, nonminority
female-owned firms, and, finally, African American-owned firms. 222 Misclassification was also
observed in every NAICS stratum, ranging from 0.0 percent to 36.6 percent as shown in Table
4.18.
Table 4.18. Listed M/WBE Survey—Amount of Misclassification, by Industry Grouping
Listed M/WBE By
NAICS Code Grouping
Misclassification
(Percentage
Nonminority Male)
Percentage Actually
M/WBE-owned
Number of Businesses
Interviewed
NAICS 236-A 24.44 75.56 135
NAICS 237-A 36.36 63.64 33
NAICS 238-A 23.08 76.92 195
NAICS 3 OR 42-A 25.58 74.42 129
NAICS 48 OR 49-A 16.67 83.33 108
NAICS 44 OR 45-A 21.05 78.95 95
NAICS 54-A 11.44 88.56 201
NAICS 5 BUT NOT
NAICS 54-A
18.68 81.32 91
NAICS 6 OR 7-A 19.59 80.41 97
NAICS 8-A 27.91 72.09 86
NAICS 11 OR 22-A 0.00 100.00 3
NAICS 1 OR 2-B 16.00 84.00 25
NAICS 3 OR 42-B 27.27 72.73 44
NAICS 44 OR 45-B 19.67 80.33 61
NAICS 48 OR 49-B 30.00 70.00 10
NAICS 5-B 11.11 88.89 36
NAICS 6 OR 7-B 19.64 80.36 56
NAICS 8-B 8.00 92.00 75
All NAICS Codes 20.00 80.00 1,480
Source: See NERA telephone surveys.
Notes: (1) Figures are rounded. Rounding was performed subsequent to any mathematical calculations; (2)
Two groupings of strata, A and B, were created. NAICS codes reflecting approximately 90 percent of all
contract and subcontract spending were stratified into group A with the balance stratified into group B.
222 For this study, “Black” or “African American” refers to an individual having origins in any of the Black racial
groups of Africa; “Hispanic” refers to an individual of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South
American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race; “Asian” or “Asian/Pacific Islander” refers to an
individual having origins in the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, or the Pacific Islands; “Native
American” refers to an individual having origins in any of the original peoples of North America or of Hawai’i.
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