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

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

Total	6,700	100.0

Gender
Male	400†	6.1†
Female	6,300	93.9

Average age (years)	45.1

Race/ethnicity
White	2,300	34.2
African American	4,200	62.9
Asian/Pacific Islander	100†	1.0†
Native American	200†	2.8†
Latino/Hispanic	—†	—†

Birthplace
United States, incl. territories	6,500	96.9
Other countries	200†	3.1†

Family income
< Federal Poverty Level	2,100	30.9
< 200% Federal Poverty Level	4,200	62.5

Type of worker
Home health or nursing aide	3,600	53.5
Personal or home care attendant	2,800	41.7
Other	300†	4.8†

Type of employment
Self-employed	1,000	14.6
Works for employer	5,700	85.4
Full-time workers (≥35 hrs/week)	4,100	61.5
Steadily employed (≥50 weeks/yr)	4,100	60.5


Worker type	Median (2007 dollars)
All workers	$13,000
Full-time year-round workers	$19,500

Consumer-to-worker ratio

Region	No. with ADL difficulty per PAS worker
Mississippi	18.8
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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