dira | Demographics of Stargate SG-1, season three.

Stats are available at the SG-1 Season 3 page on the Characters Count Wiki, or under the cut:

Episode Title/Number	Speaking characters	Women	% Women	Bechdel	PoC	% PoC	Race-Bechdel
Into the Fire/3x01	15	4	26.7%	Pass	3	20%	Pass
Seth/3x02	12	2	16.7%	Pass	2	16.7%	Fail 2
Fair Game/3x03	11+1*	3	27.3%	Pass	3	27.3%	Pass
Legacy/3x04	9	2	22.2%	Pass	1	11.1%	Fail 1
Learning Curve/3x05	11	4	36.4%	Pass	1	9.1%	Fail 1
Point of View/3x06	14	4	28.6%	Pass	3	21.4%	Pass
Deadman Switch/3x07	6	1	16.7%	Fail 1	2	33.3%	Pass
Demons/3x08	9	2	22.2%	Pass	1	11.1%	Fail 1
Rules of Engagement/3x09	10	2	20%	Fail 2	2	20%	Fail 2
Forever in a Day/3x10	9	3	33.3%	Fail 2	3	33.3%	Fail 2
Past and Present/3x11	10	4	40%	Pass	1	10%	Fail 1
Jolinar's Memories/3x12	13	1	7.7%	Fail 1	3	23.1%	Fail 2
The Devil You Know/3x13	12	1	8.3%	Fail 1	2	16.7%	Fail 2
Foothold/3x14	12**	3	25%	Pass?	3	25%	Fail 2
Pretense/3x15	11	3	27.3%	Pass	2	18.2%	Fail 2
Urgo/3x16	9	2	22.2%	Pass	1	11.1%	Fail 1
A Hundred Days/3x17	11	4	36.4%	Pass	1	9.1%	Fail 1
Shades of Grey/3x18	11	4	36.4%	Fail 2	1	9.1%	Fail 1
New Ground/3x19	12	4	33.3%	Fail 2	1	8.3%	Fail 1
Maternal Instinct/3x20	12	2	16.7%	Fail 2	4	33.3%	Pass
Crystal Skull/3x21	12+1*	4	33.3%	Fail 2	2	16.7%	Fail 2
Nemesis/3x22	8+1*	1	12.5%	Fail 1	2	25%	Fail 2

* + Non-humanoid alien who could not be assigned a gender or race, excluded from percentage calculations.
** All doppelgangers and originals counted as single characters because it made my head hurt less.

Levels of Fail for Bechdel Test:
1: Fails on first criterion ("There are two women"/"There are two characters of color")
2: Fails on second criterion ("And they talk to each other")
3: Fails on third criterion ("About something other than a man"/"About something other than white people")

Female character counts range from 1 to 4 per episode. Percentage of female characters ranges from 8.3% to 40%.
Median count is 3. Mean count is 2.7.
Median percentage is 25.9%. Mean percentage is 25%.

Character of color counts range from 1 to 4 per episode. Percentage of characters of color ranges from 8.3% to 33.3%.
Median count is 2. Mean count is 2.
Median percentage is 17.5%. Mean percentage is 18.6%.

Takeaways for Season 3:

One statistic improved: Bechdel Test passes continued to increase, from 9/21 in S1 to 11/22 in S2 to 12/22 in S3.

One statistic stayed the same: race-Bechdel Test passes, at 5/22.

Everything else got worse. Everything. Four episodes in which Sam is the only woman, EIGHT in which Teal'c is the only person of color, counts and percentages down across the board.

(And, with the introduction of the Replicators as villains--and Asgard as allies in the fight against them--we begin the move away from the Goa'uld and Jaffa, who represent a considerable proportion of the women and people of color in some episodes, replacing them with mechanical spiders and race- and gender-neutral alien things. For whatever that's worth.

Oh, show. What the hell.)

Now, perhaps you are thinking, well, that sucks, what is there to be done about it? Do what fans always do! Join a comm!

At LiveJournal, there is the newly formed

passingbechdel community, for all your Bechdel Test fixit-fic needs--it's open to all fandoms, and welcomes fic that brings characters of color together, as well as fic that highlights women.

At Dreamwidth, there is the also newly formed

characterscount community, affiliated with the Characters Count Wiki, for discussion and coordination of counting projects like this one--if you've embarked on a crazy counting project, or if you would like to organize a group of people to cooperate on one, or if you just want to kibbitz, it's the place to go.