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

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

Total	14,200	100.0

Gender
Male	1,000	7.3
Female	13,200	92.7

Average age (years)	46.0

Race/ethnicity
White	7,600	53.8
African American	5,400	38.1
Asian/Pacific Islander	200†	1.3†
Native American	200†	1.6†
Latino/Hispanic	1,800	12.9

Birthplace
United States, incl. territories	10,300	72.7
Other countries	3,900	27.3

Family income
< Federal Poverty Level	1,400	10.1
< 200% Federal Poverty Level	4,900	34.7

Type of worker
Home health or nursing aide	8,300	58.5
Personal or home care attendant	4,900	34.6
Other	1,000	6.9

Type of employment
Self-employed	1,100	7.9
Works for employer	13,100	92.1
Full-time workers (≥35 hrs/week)	7,300	51.6
Steadily employed (≥50 weeks/yr)	9,600	67.6


Worker type	Median (2007 dollars)
All workers	$18,800
Full-time year-round workers	$27,500

Consumer-to-worker ratio

Region	No. with ADL difficulty per PAS worker
Connecticut	5.4
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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