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State Information > Estimated Number of PAS workers and workers per persons with self-care difficulty for all states

Estimated number of PAS workers and workers per persons with self-care difficulty for all states

Estimates for 2003

(Updated from 2002 data on 2/18/2005)

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Estimated number of PAS workers and workers per persons with self-care difficulty
State # of workers Workers per 1000 pop Workers per
1000 people w/
self-care difficulty
Alabama 12,656 2.9 80.3
Alaska 3,522 5.6 268.2
Arizona 21,501 3.9 193.0
Arkansas 12,792 4.8 126.3
California 200,348 5.8 256.0
Colorado 13,951 3.1 198.7
Connecticut 14,660 4.3 210.3
Delaware 2,248 2.8 126.8
District of Columbia 1,681 3.2 141.5
Florida 64,798 3.9 140.5
Georgia 17,773 2.1 88.4
Hawaii 2,528 2.1 113.4
Idaho 5,978 4.5 187.4
Illinois 47,146 3.8 169.0
Indiana 14,230 2.4 95.6
Iowa 7,400 2.6 118.2
Kansas 12,335 4.7 209.0
Kentucky 10,696 2.7 78.4
Louisiana 14,602 3.3 99.1
Maine 5,895 4.6 161.8
Maryland 16,324 3.0 133.7
Massachusetts 24,810 4.0 188.4
Michigan 37,643 3.8 141.0
Minnesota 17,140 3.5 183.6
Mississippi 6,835 2.5 57.2
Missouri 27,179 4.9 197.2
Montana 1,423 1.6 71.6
Nebraska 7,660 4.5 218.5
Nevada 2,623 1.2 52.7
New Hampshire 4,274 3.4 180.9
New Jersey 37,126 4.4 187.8
New Mexico 11,606 6.3 225.6
New York 155,079 8.3 331.3
North Carolina 38,551 4.7 169.4
North Dakota 2,342 3.8 228.2
Ohio 42,825 3.8 147.6
Oklahoma 15,617 4.6 149.8
Oregon 21,922 6.3 249.2
Pennsylvania 40,145 3.4 133.0
Rhode Island 3,197 3.1 134.9
South Carolina 9,531 2.4 91.8
South Dakota 2,338 3.2 207.1
Tennessee 12,863 2.3 74.1
Texas 121,159 5.6 243.8
Utah 1,653 0.7 50.5
Vermont 3,944 6.6 276.9
Virginia 22,946 3.2 139.2
Washington 31,687 5.3 224.0
West Virginia 13,235 7.5 185.8
Wisconsin 19,904 3.7 167.9
Wyoming 2,119 4.3 219.9
US 1,242,440 4.4 176.9

 

Source:  Center for Personal Assistance Services, tabulations of public use microdata from the 2003 American Community Survey.

Home and Personal Care Workers by State


Susan Chapman, Stephen Kaye, and Robert Newcomer

(Choose a state for detail of estimated PAS workers and workers per persons with self-care difficulty)

The American Community Survey provides estimates of demographic, housing, social, and economic characteristics for all states and is conducted using a survey of sample households throughout the U.S. Occupational data is collected using the occupational classification system developed for the 2000 census. This classification system includes 509 occupational categories in 23 major occupational groups. In contrast to the Occupational Employment Statistics Survey (OES) conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the ACS is particularly useful in estimating the number of personal care workers because it includes workers who are self-employed or unpaid family workers.

We used the major occupation grouping Personal Care and Service Organizations to estimate the number of personal care workers. Within that major grouping we selected workers in the in the categories of Personal and Home Care Aides and Personal Care and Service Workers. While these overall estimates of workers who provide personal assistance services may be lower than the actual number of individuals involved in this type of work, we believe that these data represent the best estimates we have on a national base that also allow state by state comparison.