Two policy trends converged in 1990 to highlight the need within the Department of Social and Health Services for information on actual and possible clients, grouped by social category (race, ethnicity, gender, age and disability) and by location (county, region and local field office). First, the Minority Initiative raised a number of fundamental questions about the way DSHS was serving minority populations. Second, the Strategic Planning effort raised important issues around geographic access and client service relative to need. This report explores the service use of the following groups during the 1990 State Fiscal Year. Since the report was constructed from data already recorded in DSHS data sources, the accuracy of the determination of client group information is limited by the accuracy of those data sources. Refer to the Group Coding section later in this document for details.