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

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

Total	12,900	100.0

Gender
Male	1,100	8.6
Female	11,800	91.4

Average age (years)	42.6

Race/ethnicity
White	9,400	72.8
African American	2,300	17.6
Asian/Pacific Islander	—†	0.2†
Native American	2,100	16.5
Latino/Hispanic	400†	3.3†

Birthplace
United States, incl. territories	12,700	98.3
Other countries	200†	1.7†

Family income
< Federal Poverty Level	3,000	23.2
< 200% Federal Poverty Level	7,500	58.4

Type of worker
Home health or nursing aide	7,100	55.1
Personal or home care attendant	4,900	37.7
Other	900†	7.2†

Type of employment
Self-employed	2,600	20.1
Works for employer	10,300	79.9
Full-time workers (≥35 hrs/week)	7,800	60.7
Steadily employed (≥50 weeks/yr)	7,400	57.7


Worker type	Median (2007 dollars)
All workers	$11,900
Full-time year-round workers	$17,300

Consumer-to-worker ratio

Region	No. with ADL difficulty per PAS worker
Oklahoma	9.3
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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