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

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

Total	1,500	100.0

Gender
Male	200†	11.6†
Female	1,300	88.4

Average age (years)	42.0

Race/ethnicity
White	1,400	91.4
African American	—†	2.0†
Asian/Pacific Islander	—†	—†
Native American	100†	6.6†
Latino/Hispanic	—†	0.5†

Birthplace
United States, incl. territories	1,500	100.0
Other countries	—†	—†

Family income
< Federal Poverty Level	100†	6.3†
< 200% Federal Poverty Level	400	26.0

Type of worker
Home health or nursing aide	600	38.2
Personal or home care attendant	600	36.5
Other	400†	25.3†

Type of employment
Self-employed	300†	17.2†
Works for employer	1,300	82.8
Full-time workers (≥35 hrs/week)	1,200	78.6
Steadily employed (≥50 weeks/yr)	800	54.6


Worker type	Median (2007 dollars)
All workers	$17,300
Full-time year-round workers	$20,300

Consumer-to-worker ratio

Region	No. with ADL difficulty per PAS worker
Wyoming	8.8
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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