The Ecphorizer
| Mensa Rosterology III |
| Ken Uhland |
Issue #11 (July 1982)
A data dump of the occupations and ethnic origins of SF Mensa members
[quoteleft]It's time for more, yes more, information about the membership of San Francisco Regional Mensa. Some time ago National Mensa provided the San Francisco group with a data tape containing a mass of statistics on the 2,566 members we had at the time. (We've grown since.) A look at
these statistics may answer some often-asked questions.6.1% of SF Mensa members identify themselves as other than White European
How do SFRMensans earn their living? National Mensa gathers information in two categories - Area and Occupation.
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Area. |
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|
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Private Industry |
41.93% |
1,076 |
|
Government |
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|
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Federal |
5.38 |
138 |
|
State |
2.49 |
64 |
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Local |
2.57 |
66 |
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Total Government |
10.44 |
268 |
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Non-Profit |
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|
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Charitable |
0.47 |
12 |
|
Education |
5.96 |
153 |
|
Health Service |
3.20 |
82 |
|
Religious or Church |
0.31 |
8 |
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Total Non-Profit |
9.94 |
255 |
|
Self-employed |
5.85 |
150 |
|
Other areas |
3.35 |
86 |
|
Not employed |
9.98 |
256 |
|
Information not provided |
18.51 |
475 |
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Professional, Technical arid Managerial Occupations |
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|
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Architects |
0.39% |
10 |
|
Art |
0.82 |
21 |
|
Data Processing & Computer Technology |
10.83 |
278 |
|
Education |
5.03 |
129 |
|
Engineers |
7.87 |
202 |
|
Entertainment and Recreation |
0.58 |
15 |
|
Law and Jurisprudence |
3.58 |
92 |
|
Life and Social Sciences |
2.68 |
68 |
|
Managers and Administrators |
11.11 |
285 |
|
Mathematics and Physical |
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|
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Sciences |
1.56 |
40 |
|
Medicine and Health |
4.32 |
ill |
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Miscellaneous Professional or |
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|
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Technical Occupations |
3.82 |
98 |
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Museum, Library and Archival |
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|
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Professionals |
0.47 |
12 |
|
owners of Businesses |
2.45 |
63 |
|
Religion (Clergy) |
0.11 |
3 |
|
Writing |
3.23 |
83 |
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Clerical and Sales Occupations |
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|
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Computing, Keypunch and |
|
|
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Account-Recording |
0.50% |
13 |
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Information and Message |
|
|
|
Distribution, Mailroom |
0.27 |
7 |
|
Merchandising, excluding |
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|
|
Salespersons |
0.16 |
3 |
|
Miscellaneous Clerical |
1.21 |
31 |
|
Sales - Services |
0.62 |
16 |
|
Sales - Commodities |
0.31 |
8 |
|
Secretarial and Stenography |
1.05 |
27 |
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Service Occupations |
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|
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Amusement and Recreation |
|
|
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Services |
0.11% |
3 |
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Bankers and Stock Investment |
|
|
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Brokers |
0.86 |
22 |
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Building Services, Janitorial, |
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|
|
Custodial, etc. |
0.11 |
3 |
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Food and Beverages Preparation |
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|
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and Service |
0.50 |
13 |
|
Housewife or Homemaker |
1.17 |
30 |
|
Miscellaneous Services, not |
|
|
|
classified elsewhere |
0.66 |
17 |
|
Protective Services |
1.32 |
34 |
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Real Estate |
1.48 |
38 |
|
Wholesale Supply and Service |
0.08 |
2 |
|
Farming, Fishery, Forestry |
0.39% |
10 |
|
Trade, Manufacturing and |
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|
|
Processing Production Worker |
|
|
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Bench Work and Technical |
|
|
|
Services |
0.97% |
25 |
|
Construction |
0.47 |
12 |
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Machine Trade |
0.43 |
11 |
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Manufacturing and Processing |
0.39 |
10 |
|
Other Specific Trades |
0.35 |
9 |
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Miscellaneous Occupations |
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|
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Amusement, Recreation and Motion Pictures, not elsewhere classified |
0.23% |
6 |
|
Graphic Arts |
0.23 |
6 |
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Motor Freight and Transportation |
0.27 |
7 |
|
Utilities Products and Distribution |
0.08 |
2 |
|
Occupations not classified above |
5.53% |
142 |
Excluding the 549 members who didn't list an occupation and the 142 unclassifiable occupations, the individual occupations having the largest number of members are:
|
95 |
3.70% |
Programmers |
|
87 |
3.39 |
Miscellaneous Professional and Technical occupations |
|
77 |
3.00 |
Electrical Engineers |
|
66 |
2.57 |
Lawyers |
|
63 |
2.46 |
Business Owners |
|
62 |
2.42 |
System Analysts |
|
60 |
2.34 |
Managers and Administrators |
|
58 |
2.26 |
Data Processing and Computer Technologists |
|
44 |
1.71 |
Accountants and Auditors |
At the other end of the scale, we have only one member in each of the following categories:
Guards/Watchmen
Protective Services
Commodity and Supply Brokers
Athletics/Sports
Actor/Dancer
Interpreters/Translators
Veterinarian
Dietician
Geologist
Ethnic Origin. Predominant racial or ethnic class data has not been given by some members and 50 members consider it private information. The breakdown is as follows:
|
20 |
0.78 |
Amerind |
|
19 |
0.74 |
Black |
|
1,878 |
73.19 |
White European |
|
25 |
0.97 |
Latin/Spanish American |
|
11 |
0.43 |
Middle Eastern |
|
9 |
0.35 |
South Asian |
|
38 |
1.48 |
Oriental |
|
9 |
0.35 |
Other Asian |
|
1 |
0.04 |
Polynesian/Melanesian/Oceanic |
|
25 |
0.97 |
Other origins |
|
531 |
20.70 |
Not known |
This month's article contains the last bits of information that Ken Uhland squeezed out of the Mensa roster tape. His computer is now convalescing.
Contributor Profile
Ken Uhland
Master Puzzler Ken Uhland graced the pages of the SFRM Intelligencer with puzzles for over two decades. Ken has worked as a taxi driver and a technical instructor. For many years he coordinated the Mensa volunteers during San Jose's KTEH-TV's PBS Pledge Weeks. Ken passed away in May, 2004, at age 58.