Size and characteristics of the Alaska PAS workforce, 2005-07

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Size and characteristics of the Alaska PAS workforce, 2005-07
Annual earnings
	Number of PAS workers	Percent of PAS workers

Total	2,800	100.0

Gender
Male	800	27.1
Female	2,000	72.9

Average age (years)	40.6

Race/ethnicity
White	1,600	57.1
African American	200†	8.2†
Asian/Pacific Islander	500†	19.6
Native American	700	26.6
Latino/Hispanic	—†	0.4†

Birthplace
United States, incl. territories	2,000	73.0
Other countries	800†	27.0

Family income
< Federal Poverty Level	300†	11.0†
< 200% Federal Poverty Level	800	27.5

Type of worker
Home health or nursing aide	1,400	50.3
Personal or home care attendant	1,300	47.0
Other	100†	2.8†

Type of employment
Self-employed	100†	5.3†
Works for employer	2,600	94.7
Full-time workers (≥35 hrs/week)	1,600	56.5
Steadily employed (≥50 weeks/yr)	1,700	62.7


Worker type	Median (2007 dollars)
All workers	$20,900
Full-time year-round workers	$25,800

Consumer-to-worker ratio

Region	No. with ADL difficulty per PAS worker
Alaska	5.7
National average	7.3

† Estimate has low statistical reliability (standard error is greater than 30% of estimate).
— Estimate is less than 50 people or 0.05 percent.

These estimates are based on an analysis conducted by the Center for Personal Assistance Services of a three-year combined sample of data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey. PAS workers were identified according to both their occupation and industry of employment ( for details, see Kaye, H. S., Chapman, S., Newcomer, R. J., & Harrington, C. (2006). The Personal Assistance Workforce: Trends in supply and demand. Health Affairs, 25(4), 1113-1120). Because many PAS workers may not report this work to the Census Bureau as their primary occupation, the statistics presented probably underestimate the true number of workers in each state.

The number of workers by race and ethnicity may add up to more than the total for two reasons:

people can identify multiple races, in which case they are listed in more than one category, and
people identifying as Latino/Hispanic are also listed in a racial category (for example, white or African American).

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