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

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

Total	1,900	100.0

Gender
Male	—†	1.3†
Female	1,900	98.7

Average age (years)	43.8

Race/ethnicity
White	900	44.9
African American	1,100	55.1
Asian/Pacific Islander	—†	—†
Native American	—†	—†
Latino/Hispanic	—†	—†

Birthplace
United States, incl. territories	1,900	97.2
Other countries	100†	2.8†

Family income
< Federal Poverty Level	300†	15.7†
< 200% Federal Poverty Level	700	34.1

Type of worker
Home health or nursing aide	1,000	50.8
Personal or home care attendant	500	24.3
Other	500†	24.8†

Type of employment
Self-employed	300†	14.7†
Works for employer	1,600	85.3
Full-time workers (≥35 hrs/week)	1,200	63.9
Steadily employed (≥50 weeks/yr)	1,600	81.0


Worker type	Median (2007 dollars)
All workers	$25,400
Full-time year-round workers	$34,900

Consumer-to-worker ratio

Region	No. with ADL difficulty per PAS worker
Delaware	11.6
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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