Workforce Diversity or EEO Row-Level Extract

Row-level workforce diversity and equal employment opportunity (EEO) extracts: HRIS or payroll exports prepared for Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) reporting, Queensland public sector MOHRI workforce data and the workforce diversity census, equity and diversity audits under the Public Sector Act 2022 (Qld) ss 27-29, and internal diversity dashboards' source data. Each row ties an employee identifier to diversity attributes such as Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander status, disability, culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) or non-English speaking background, language spoken at home, country of birth, gender and, where collected, sexuality. Aggregate reports, published workforce statistics and survey questionnaires are out of scope.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: a delimited header row that joins an employee identifier to two or more diversity columns, followed by rows of ID-plus-attribute values, is distinctive of a row-level extract, and aggregate reports, questionnaires and policies do not carry it. Row values such as Y / N and F / M are generic, so a header-gated HR extract with unrelated yes / no columns can reach 75, and extracts with unusual column names or space-aligned layouts are missed. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy; test values are synthetic extracts laid out like WGEA and MOHRI source files.
Jurisdictions: au, au-qld
Regulations: Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012 (Cth), Public Sector Act 2022 (Qld), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld)
Frameworks: ISO 27001, ISO 27701, QGISCF
Data categories: pii, employment, sensitive-data
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 8
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Unsupported, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:(?:employee|staff|payroll|personnel|person|emp)[ _.-]?(?:id|no\.?|number|num|code|#)|EmpID|AGS[ _]?(?:no|number)?)[ \t]*[,|\t;](?:[^\r\n,|\t;]{0,60}[,|\t;]){0,12}[ \t]*\b(?:ATSI|indigenous|aboriginal|torres[ _]strait|first[ _]nations|disability|CALD|NESB|non[ _-]english|language[ _](?:spoken|at|other)|main[ _]language|country[ _]of[ _]birth|ethnicity|cultural[ _]background|gender|sexual[ _]orientation|sexuality|sex|LGBTIQ)\b[^\r\n,|\t;]{0,50}[,|\t;](?:[^\r\n,|\t;]{0,60}[,|\t;]){0,12}[ \t]*\b(?:ATSI|indigenous|aboriginal|torres[ _]strait|first[ _]nations|disability|CALD|NESB|non[ _-]english|language[ _](?:spoken|at|other)|main[ _]language|country[ _]of[ _]birth|ethnicity|cultural[ _]background|gender|sexual[ _]orientation|sexuality|sex|LGBTIQ)\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

WGEA, MOHRI, workforce diversity census, equity and diversity audit, workplace profile, EEO, diversity data, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, CALD, disability

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Employee ID,Surname,Given name,Gender,ATSI status,Disability,CALD,Classification E100231,Teston,Riley,F,Y,N,N,AO5 E100232,Teston,Jordan,M,N,Y,Y,AO3 E100233,Carrowby,Sam,X,N,N,Y,PO4 — 85 tier - CSV diversity census extract with employee ID, four diversity columns and three populated rows
Staff No | Gender | Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander | Disability | Language spoken at home 400512 | Female | Aboriginal | No | English — 75 tier - pipe table header with staff number and diversity columns plus one populated row
MOHRI quarterly extract - equity and diversity Payroll number Sex Indigenous status NESB Disability 770415 Female Non-Indigenous Yes No 770416 Male Torres Strait Islander No No — 85 tier - tab-separated MOHRI-style extract with two populated rows
Emp_ID;Gender;Manager category;Disability;Sexuality W22910;Woman;Key management personnel;No;Bisexual — 75 tier - semicolon WGEA-style workplace profile source row with gender, disability and sexuality
Surname,Gender,Staff number,ATSI,Disability,Country of birth Teston,Female,300118,Y,N,Viet Nam — 75 tier - header with a diversity column before the staff number column, one populated row

Should not match

WGEA workplace profile summary 2026 Manager category | Women | Men | Total CEO | 0 | 1 | 1 Key management personnel | 4 | 6 | 10 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees: 3.2% of the workforce; employees with disability: 4.1%. — Aggregate WGEA report / published workforce statistics
Workforce diversity census 2026 Q3. Do you identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander? [ ] Yes [ ] No [ ] Prefer not to say Q4. Do you have a disability? [ ] Yes [ ] No Q5. What is your gender? [ ] Woman [ ] Man [ ] Non-binary [ ] I use a different term — Diversity survey question set
Equity and diversity policy. This policy applies to all employees. The agency will collect gender, disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and CALD status on a voluntary basis to meet targets of 4% Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and 12% CALD representation. — Diversity policy
HR data dictionary - diversity extract Employee ID,Gender,ATSI status,Disability,CALD Valid values: Gender F / M / X; ATSI status Y / N / not stated — Header row in a data dictionary with no populated rows (65 at most)
The public sector's latest workforce diversity census found CALD representation rose to 11.8 per cent and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment to 2.9 per cent. — News / published statistics

Known false positives

Aggregate WGEA reports, annual report workforce tables and published diversity statistics. Mitigation: No employee identifier column or ID-bearing rows, so the primary header row never matches.
Diversity census questionnaires and survey question sets. Mitigation: Questions are not delimited header rows with an employee ID column; they never reach the primary.
Data dictionaries, extract specifications and empty exports that carry the header row. Mitigation: Header alone is discovery only (65); data dictionary, valid values and field definition wording is excluded from enforce tiers.
HR extracts with an employee ID and diversity columns plus unrelated Y / N or F / M columns. Mitigation: Still gated on the diversity header; accept, or tune the row value list locally.