within each table of departments, data giving characteristics of tenured and tenure track professors are provided by race/ethnicity, by rank, and by gender. the table of the first discipline surveyed in the fy2002 nds is provided as an example in figure 1 (actually this very first survey was done in fy2001 and the remaining disciplines were carried out in fy2002). in figure 1, the first column lists chemistry departments, nsf-ranked as 1-50, according to chemical research funding expenditures. the next group of four columns provides white faculty headcount, disaggregated by rank (full, associate, assistant, and all). the next analogous four groups of columns give similar rank-disaggregated headcount data for blacks, for hispanics, for asians, and for native americans. the final column in the table is the sum of all faculty in each department. gender data are provided in each number after the decimal point, so that a number such as 35.003 means 35 people, 3 of whom are women.