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

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

Total	4,200	100.0

Gender
Male	600†	14.6
Female	3,600	85.4

Average age (years)	38.2

Race/ethnicity
White	3,500	82.1
African American	500†	12.8†
Asian/Pacific Islander	200†	4.8†
Native American	100†	1.2†
Latino/Hispanic	100†	2.8†

Birthplace
United States, incl. territories	3,900	93.2
Other countries	300†	6.8†

Family income
< Federal Poverty Level	700†	16.2
< 200% Federal Poverty Level	1,300	31.2

Type of worker
Home health or nursing aide	2,300	54.9
Personal or home care attendant	1,700	39.4
Other	200†	5.7†

Type of employment
Self-employed	1,200	28.7
Works for employer	3,000	71.3
Full-time workers (≥35 hrs/week)	1,900	44.1
Steadily employed (≥50 weeks/yr)	2,600	62.4


Worker type	Median (2007 dollars)
All workers	$12,700
Full-time year-round workers	$22,500

Consumer-to-worker ratio

Region	No. with ADL difficulty per PAS worker
Nebraska	8.7
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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