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Agency Report
National Agricultural Statistics Service (USDA)

Mission: To provide timely, accurate and useful statistics in service to U.S. agriculture.

http://www.nass.usda.gov/index.asp

Parent Agency

Department of Agriculture - Score: 57.4

Scores and Rankings

• 2012
• Previous Years

	Score	Rank of 292
Index Score	45.2	283
Scores by Category	Score	Rank (out of varied totals)
Effective Leadership	47.9	267 of 290
Effective Leadership - Empowerment	43.5	231 of 290
Effective Leadership - Fairness	44.9	267 of 290
Effective Leadership - Senior Leaders	30.4	289 of 290
Effective Leadership - Supervisors	69.2	72 of 290
Employee Skills/Mission Match	73.7	246 of 290
Pay	64.9	77 of 290
Strategic Management	48.2	269 of 290
Teamwork	62.3	239 of 290
Training and Development	54.8	214 of 290
Work/Life Balance	57.2	233 of 290
Support for Diversity	58.0	148 of 290
Performance Based Rewards and Advancement	45.9	153 of 290
Alternative Work and Employee Support Programs
Index Scores by Demographic	Score	Rank (out of varied totals)
Female	46.3	277 of 287
Male	44.7	284 of 290
40 and over	44.9	286 of 289
Under 40	48.2	229 of 249
American Indian or Native American
Asian
Black or African-American
Hispanic or Latino
Multi-racial
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
White	43.7	285 of 290
Employees with Disabilities
Veterans
Senior Executive Service (SES)

	2011	2010	2009	2007	2005	2003
Index Score	64.9	71.9	69.5	70.6	73.6	66.5
Scores by Category	2011	2010	2009	2007	2005	2003
Effective Leadership	57.2	59.3	57.3	57.6	57.9	56.4
Effective Leadership - Empowerment	53.1	58.0	56.0	57.4	58.0	54.2
Effective Leadership - Fairness	55.6	52.0	51.0	48.1	49.9	47.7
Effective Leadership - Senior Leaders	48.3	55.4	53.9	53.6	55.0	53.0
Effective Leadership - Supervisors	68.9	67.5	64.4	66.4	64.7	65.2
Employee Skills/Mission Match	78.9	80.4	78.4	80.1	80.2	80.2
Pay	63.5	69.3	63.2	62.4
Strategic Management	60.3	62.3	63.0	63.8	62.7	62.9
Teamwork	67.0	69.9	76.0	76.6	73.6	71.1
Training and Development	65.6	64.1	65.7	70.1	69.6	64.4
Work/Life Balance	69.0	70.1	71.1	73.4	75.9	71.7
Support for Diversity	62.0	63.4	65.1	65.3	65.2	66.6
Performance Based Rewards and Advancement	50.6	53.1	51.9	52.1	50.2	49.4
Alternative Work and Employee Support Programs
Index Scores by Demographic	2011	2010	2009	2007	2005	2003
Female	63.4	67.5	67.9
Male	69.3	77.2	71.0
40 and over	66.0	73.6	71.0
Under 40	67.7	69.8	66.3
American Indian or Native American
Asian			75.4
Black or African-American	72.2	75.2	75.7
Hispanic or Latino			60.6
Multi-racial
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
White	65.0	71.3	69.8
Employees with Disabilities
Veterans
Senior Executive Service (SES)

Workforce Size and Trends

Number of Employees in 2001:  1,036

Number of Employees in 2002:  1,049

Number of Employees in 2003:  1,050

Number of Employees in 2004:  1,073

Number of Employees in 2005:  1,076

Number of Employees in 2006:  1,086

Number of Employees in 2007:  1,069

Number of Employees in 2008:  1,051

Number of Employees in 2009:  1,054

Number of Employees in 2010:  1,051

Number of Employees in 2011:  995

Employees joined (2011):  30

Percentage joined (2011):  3.00%

Average joined (2005-2011):  48

Employees left (2011):  89

Percentage left (2011):  8.90%

Average left (2005-2011):  68

Rookie ratio (percentage of workforce with less than three years of service):  10.10%

Demographics source: FedScope, U.S. Office of Personnel Management