HOUSEHOLD DATA

ANNUAL AVERAGES

13. Employed Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban-origin workers by sex, occupation, class of worker, and full- or part-time status

(Numbers in thousands)

Category

Total Hispanic

origin1 Mexican origin Puerto Ricanorigin Cuban origin

1997 1998 1997 1998 1997 1998 1997 1998

SEX

Total (all civilian workers) ................................................................... 12,726 13,291 7,884 8,431 1,166 1,145 603 612

 Men ................................................................................................... 7,728 8,018 4,941 5,291 654 615 364 371

 Women ............................................................................................. 4,999 5,273 2,943 3,140 512 529 239 241

OCCUPATION

 Managerial and professional specialty ............................................. 1,867 1,933 946 985 206 208 171 159

 Executive, administrative, and managerial ..................................... 1,001 1,028 508 536 103 103 102 89

 Professional specialty ..................................................................... 866 905 438 449 103 105 69 70

 Technical, sales, and administrative support .................................... 3,026 3,186 1,728 1,845 347 365 197 210

 Technicians and related support .................................................... 256 283 140 156 30 30 18 28

 Sales occupations .......................................................................... 1,198 1,245 680 729 112 118 88 94

 Administrative support, including clerical ........................................ 1,572 1,657 908 961 204 217 91 88

 Service occupations ......................................................................... 2,560 2,670 1,524 1,653 231 217 75 85

 Private household ........................................................................... 212 262 99 130 5653

 Protective service ........................................................................... 202 204 106 106 47 39 9 13

 Service, except private household and protective .......................... 2,146 2,204 1,319 1,417 179 172 62 69

 Precision production, craft, and repair .............................................. 1,714 1,793 1,185 1,199 127 119 55 66

 Mechanics and repairers ................................................................ 479 496 303 311 50 38 30 28

 Construction trades ........................................................................ 736 785 542 554 42 33 16 23

 Other precision production, craft, and repair .................................. 499 512 340 334 36 48 10 15

 Operators, fabricators, and laborers ................................................. 2,839 2,917 1,887 2,047 243 223 96 85

 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ............................ 1,426 1,340 957 955 119 105 33 24

 Transportation and material moving occupations ........................... 592 640 370 422 64 53 36 38

 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers .................... 821 938 561 671 61 64 28 24

 Construction laborers ................................................................... 166 193 121 149 6943

 Other handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ......... 655 745 439 521 55 55 23 21

 Farming, forestry, and fishing ........................................................... 721 792 614 703 12 13 8 7

CLASS OF WORKER

 Agriculture:

 Wage and salary workers ............................................................... 583 670 519 605 6925

 Self-employed workers ................................................................... 76 71 52 56 – 1 2 2

 Unpaid family workers .................................................................... 1 2 1 1– – – –

 Nonagricultural industries:

 Wage and salary workers ............................................................... 11,458 11,949 6,949 7,410 1,121 1,100 558 574

 Government .................................................................................. 1,331 1,355 821 833 188 180 58 60

 Private industries .......................................................................... 10,127 10,594 6,128 6,577 933 920 500 515

 Private households ..................................................................... 234 281 109 139 6753

 Other industries .......................................................................... 9,893 10,312 6,019 6,438 927 913 495 511

 Self-employed workers ................................................................... 598 590 356 351 36 34 41 31

 Unpaid family workers .................................................................... 11 10 8 8 ––––

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

 Full-time workers .............................................................................. 10,741 11,303 6,672 7,166 958 969 517 531

 Part-time workers ............................................................................. 1,985 1,988 1,212 1,265 208 176 86 81

1 Includes persons of Central or South American origin and of other

Hispanic origin, not shown separately.

 NOTE: Beginning in January 1998, data reflect new composite estimation

procedures and revised population controls used in the household survey.

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