Average time
About 3–5 minutes
One page with personal details and two voluntary self-identification questions.
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United States federal statewide
Prepare your voluntary federal personnel form.
Prepare your voluntary ethnicity and race identification for your federal personnel office. Review and download the official PDF, then deliver it securely through your agency.
Your personnel record name and birth month/year
Your agency’s secure delivery instructions
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Average time
One page with personal details and two voluntary self-identification questions.
Difficulty
Based on the official source, the active walkthrough branches, and the details needed for the final PDF.
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What you will complete
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Strategic Brief
The Goal
For current federal employees. Ethnicity, race and SSN disclosure are voluntary. The official form explains the agency’s use of missing information. Leave Agency Use Only blank and follow your personnel office’s secure delivery instructions. The questions and completed PDF have been checked against the official source. Review your own PDF before sending it.
The Warning
Your personnel record name and birth month/year
Your agency’s secure delivery instructions
Source confidence
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Walkthrough status
Guided walkthrough ready
Agency
U.S. Office of Personnel Management
PDF source
From the issuer: https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/SF_181.pdf
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Form identifier
SF 181
Estimated time
About 3–5 minutes
Revision
Revised August 2005
Verified
Sep 2026
Jurisdiction
United States federal statewide