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Table A. Overall Current Availability—By Major Procurement Category and Overall
AWARD
DOLLARS
PAID
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PAID
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Source and Notes: Table 4.21.
African
American Hispanic
Asian/
Pacific
Islander
Native
American
CONSTRUCTION
Executive Summary
NERA Economic Consulting 4
MBE
Nonminority
Female
M/WBE
Non-
M/WBE
3.17 1.03 0.11 0.92 5.22 11.99 17.20 82.80
3.16 1.07 0.10 0.92 5.24 11.77 17.01 82.99
AE-CRS
3.13 1.01 2.38 0.06 6.58 15.50 22.08 77.92
3.12 1.01 2.38 0.06 6.57 15.51 22.08 77.92
SERVICES
4.13 0.65 0.55 0.34 5.67 18.75 24.42 75.58
4.02 0.65 0.53 0.36 5.55 18.72 24.27 75.73
COMMODITIES
2.57 0.11 0.77 0.59 4.03 16.62 20.65 79.35
2.64 0.11 0.75 0.57 4.07 16.80 20.87 79.13
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.
E. Statistical Disparities in Minority and Female Business Formation and
Business Owner Earnings
Chapter V demonstrates that current M/WBE availability levels in the Cleveland market area, as
measured in Chapter IV, are substantially lower in most instances than those that we would
expect to observe if commercial markets operated in a race- and gender-neutral manner and that
these levels are statistically significant. 4 In other words, minorities and women tend to be
substantially and significantly less likely to own their own businesses as the result of
discrimination than would be expected based upon their observable characteristics, including
4 Typically, for a given disparity statistic to be considered “statistically significant” there must be a substantial
probability that the value of that statistic is unlikely to be due to chance alone. See also fn. 236.