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

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

Total	6,300	100.0

Gender
Male	700	11.3
Female	5,600	88.7

Average age (years)	41.3

Race/ethnicity
White	6,100	95.8
African American	200†	2.7†
Asian/Pacific Islander	—†	—†
Native American	500†	7.8†
Latino/Hispanic	500†	8.6†

Birthplace
United States, incl. territories	6,000	95.3
Other countries	300†	4.7†

Family income
< Federal Poverty Level	1,200	18.4
< 200% Federal Poverty Level	2,300	36.6

Type of worker
Home health or nursing aide	3,300	51.7
Personal or home care attendant	2,600	40.7
Other	500†	7.5†

Type of employment
Self-employed	900	13.7
Works for employer	5,500	86.3
Full-time workers (≥35 hrs/week)	3,300	52.5
Steadily employed (≥50 weeks/yr)	3,900	61.9


Worker type	Median (2007 dollars)
All workers	$10,800
Full-time year-round workers	$19,500

Consumer-to-worker ratio

Region	No. with ADL difficulty per PAS worker
Idaho	5.6
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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