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

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

Total	1,000	100.0

Gender
Male	—†	2.7†
Female	1,000	97.3

Average age (years)	50.8

Race/ethnicity
White	1,000	98.4
African American	—†	—†
Asian/Pacific Islander	—†	—†
Native American	—†	1.8†
Latino/Hispanic	100†	5.4†

Birthplace
United States, incl. territories	1,000	100.0
Other countries	—†	—†

Family income
< Federal Poverty Level	100†	10.8†
< 200% Federal Poverty Level	400	36.4

Type of worker
Home health or nursing aide	400	41.3
Personal or home care attendant	500	52.5
Other	100†	6.2†

Type of employment
Self-employed	100†	6.2†
Works for employer	1,000	93.8
Full-time workers (≥35 hrs/week)	400	40.4
Steadily employed (≥50 weeks/yr)	600	55.1


Worker type	Median (2007 dollars)
All workers	$9,000
Full-time year-round workers	$21,400

Consumer-to-worker ratio

Region	No. with ADL difficulty per PAS worker
South Dakota	16.9
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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