Women's Share of Workers: Home health and personal care aides (U.S.)

## What this measures

Women as a percentage of everyone employed in home health and personal care aides (SOC 31-1120), from the Current Population Survey of about 60,000 households, annual averages. Annual since 2020, when the survey moved to the 2018 Census occupation classification. The CPS publishes home health aides and personal care aides separately; the share is the two combined, weighted by employment.

## Why it matters

It shows who does each kind of work today. Set against projected openings, it shows which jobs will hire mostly women and which mostly men if hiring follows today's mix.

## How to read it

Compare occupations in the same year. Moves of a point or two from one year to the next are within the survey's sampling error for smaller occupations.

## What it does not say

It says nothing about pay or hours. The CPS classifies jobs by Census occupation titles, which are close to but not the same as the SOC codes the projections use.

## Source

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, Table 11 (employed persons by detailed occupation and sex), annual averages. Public domain.