Size and characteristics of the South Carolina PAS workforce, 2005-07

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

Total	10,000	100.0

Gender
Male	600	6.4
Female	9,400	93.6

Average age (years)	46.1

Race/ethnicity
White	4,200	41.5
African American	5,900	58.6
Asian/Pacific Islander	—†	0.4†
Native American	100†	1.2†
Latino/Hispanic	100†	1.2†

Birthplace
United States, incl. territories	9,800	97.3
Other countries	300†	2.7†

Family income
< Federal Poverty Level	1,900	19.1
< 200% Federal Poverty Level	5,500	54.8

Type of worker
Home health or nursing aide	5,600	55.4
Personal or home care attendant	4,000	39.6
Other	500†	5.0†

Type of employment
Self-employed	2,000	19.6
Works for employer	8,100	80.4
Full-time workers (≥35 hrs/week)	5,000	49.4
Steadily employed (≥50 weeks/yr)	5,700	56.8


Worker type	Median (2007 dollars)
All workers	$12,200
Full-time year-round workers	$18,400

Consumer-to-worker ratio

Region	No. with ADL difficulty per PAS worker
South Carolina	14.8
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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