In this article, you’ll learn how to populate Demographic Attributes for employees. Once Demographic Attributes are enabled in your company's settings, the next step is to add employee data to 15Five. These attributes—Birth date, Ethnicity, Gender, Race, and Salary—can be populated in one of two ways: by syncing data from your HRIS or via bulk import CSV. Populating demographic data allows HR teams to analyze trends, identify disparities, and track key outcomes through a more inclusive lens.
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How to Populate Demographic Attributes 👩💻
Demographic attributes can be populated in employee profiles via bulk import or your HRIS. Both HR Admins and Account Admins can import demographic attributes.
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Integrating with your HRIS using 15Five's HRIS Connector is the easiest way to ensure accurate, up-to-date employee data in 15Five. Learn how.
- Make sure demographic data is populated in your HRIS.
- Run a sync between your HRIS and 15Five. For more information about how to run a sync, please refer to your specific HRIS Help Center article.
- Once the sync completes, demographic information will appear in user account settings.
- Click People in 15Five's main, left-hand navigation.
- Open the "Import" tab using the top navigation to open the Bulk Import page.
- Download your company's current employment structure by clicking the Download current structure button at the top of the page.
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We suggest downloading one copy of your current structure to keep in a safe place for re-upload in case any unintended changes are made when you upload your CSV, and downloading a second copy to make edits to. You can then upload the edited CSV.
- Open the current structure CSV you just downloaded. To populate employee Demographic Attributes, remove all columns except "email" and any of the following columns that you want to use:
- demographic_salary
- demographic_gender
- demographic_race
- demographic_ethnicity
- demographic_birth_date
- When you're done inputting demographic information into the CSV, save the file in UTF-8 CSV format.
- Click Choose file at the bottom of the screen and select the CSV file from your computer that you would like to import.
- Upon file selection, a "Preview import" screen will appear. Review the changes to be made. If the changes aren't what you want, click the Start over button in the bottom, left-hand corner of the page to stop the import and return to the bulk import page.
- If you agree with the changes, click Finish import.
- Depending on the size of your CSV, it may take up to 15 minutes for the import to complete. Once the import is complete, updates will be reflected in 15Five.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) ❓
Yes. To migrate existing custom attributes into demographic attributes:
- Download your company structure from the Bulk Import page.
- Change the column name for the custom attribute to that of the demographic attribute (e.g., change salary to demographic_salary).
- Re-upload the file.
This will transfer the data into the correct demographic attribute. Once migrated, you can safely delete the original custom attribute.
No—demographic attributes are not included in company exports. If you want to ensure all demographic attributes are correct, we recommend re-importing all demographic values via bulk import.