Size and characteristics of the Rhode Island PAS workforce, 2005-07

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

Total	3,300	100.0

Gender
Male	500†	15.7†
Female	2,800	84.3

Average age (years)	41.8

Race/ethnicity
White	2,600	77.0
African American	500†	16.3†
Asian/Pacific Islander	—†	—†
Native American	100†	3.9†
Latino/Hispanic	100†	4.2†

Birthplace
United States, incl. territories	2,800	83.9
Other countries	500†	16.1†

Family income
< Federal Poverty Level	300†	8.8†
< 200% Federal Poverty Level	800	24.9

Type of worker
Home health or nursing aide	1,700	49.7
Personal or home care attendant	1,200	35.7
Other	500†	14.6†

Type of employment
Self-employed	300†	10.3†
Works for employer	3,000	89.7
Full-time workers (≥35 hrs/week)	2,300	69.8
Steadily employed (≥50 weeks/yr)	2,400	72.5


Worker type	Median (2007 dollars)
All workers	$22,700
Full-time year-round workers	$26,100

Consumer-to-worker ratio

Region	No. with ADL difficulty per PAS worker
Rhode Island	8.6
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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