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

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

Total	29,900	100.0

Gender
Male	4,000	13.4
Female	25,900	86.6

Average age (years)	43.8

Race/ethnicity
White	23,200	77.5
African American	2,800	9.3
Asian/Pacific Islander	2,500	8.2
Native American	1,200	3.9
Latino/Hispanic	2,600	8.5

Birthplace
United States, incl. territories	23,500	78.5
Other countries	6,400	21.5

Family income
< Federal Poverty Level	5,400	18.2
< 200% Federal Poverty Level	14,900	49.7

Type of worker
Home health or nursing aide	8,200	27.3
Personal or home care attendant	20,400	68.2
Other	1,400	4.5

Type of employment
Self-employed	4,600	15.4
Works for employer	25,300	84.6
Full-time workers (≥35 hrs/week)	16,500	55.1
Steadily employed (≥50 weeks/yr)	17,900	59.9


Worker type	Median (2007 dollars)
All workers	$13,200
Full-time year-round workers	$20,900

Consumer-to-worker ratio

Region	No. with ADL difficulty per PAS worker
Washington	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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