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

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

Total	19,400	100.0

Gender
Male	1,100	5.9
Female	18,300	94.1

Average age (years)	44.0

Race/ethnicity
White	6,500	33.6
African American	12,500	64.2
Asian/Pacific Islander	400†	2.0†
Native American	—†	0.2†
Latino/Hispanic	400†	2.3†

Birthplace
United States, incl. territories	17,500	90.1
Other countries	1,900	9.9

Family income
< Federal Poverty Level	4,000	20.4
< 200% Federal Poverty Level	10,200	52.7

Type of worker
Home health or nursing aide	11,300	58.0
Personal or home care attendant	6,800	35.1
Other	1,300	6.9

Type of employment
Self-employed	3,300	16.8
Works for employer	16,200	83.2
Full-time workers (≥35 hrs/week)	13,200	67.8
Steadily employed (≥50 weeks/yr)	12,200	63.0


Worker type	Median (2007 dollars)
All workers	$15,200
Full-time year-round workers	$20,800

Consumer-to-worker ratio

Region	No. with ADL difficulty per PAS worker
Georgia	12.9
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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