HOUSEHOLD DATA

ANNUAL AVERAGES

12. Employed white, black, and Hispanic-origin workers by sex, occupation, class of worker, and full- or part-time status.

(In thousands)

Category

Total White Black Hispanic origin

1997 1998 1997 1998 1997 1998 1997 1998

SEX

Total (all civilian workers) ................................................................... 129,558 131,463 109,856 110,931 13,969 14,556 12,726 13,291

 Men ................................................................................................... 69,685 70,693 59,998 60,604 6,607 6,871 7,728 8,018

 Women ............................................................................................. 59,873 60,771 49,859 50,327 7,362 7,685 4,999 5,273

OCCUPATION

 Managerial and professional specialty ............................................. 37,686 38,937 33,089 34,063 2,764 2,947 1,867 1,933

 Executive, administrative, and managerial ..................................... 18,440 19,054 16,420 16,903 1,267 1,368 1,001 1,028

 Professional specialty ..................................................................... 19,245 19,883 16,669 17,160 1,497 1,579 866 905

 Technical, sales, and administrative support .................................... 38,309 38,521 32,624 32,490 4,032 4,264 3,026 3,186

 Technicians and related support .................................................... 4,214 4,261 3,571 3,557 410 441 256 283

 Sales occupations .......................................................................... 15,734 15,850 13,730 13,704 1,271 1,415 1,198 1,245

 Administrative support, including clerical ........................................ 18,361 18,410 15,323 15,229 2,352 2,408 1,572 1,657

 Service occupations ......................................................................... 17,537 17,836 13,604 13,807 3,092 3,148 2,560 2,670

 Private household ........................................................................... 795 847 642 704 129 116 212 262

 Protective service ........................................................................... 2,300 2,417 1,800 1,892 430 463 202 204

 Service, except private household and protective .......................... 14,442 14,572 11,162 11,211 2,533 2,569 2,146 2,204

 Precision production, craft, and repair .............................................. 14,124 14,411 12,472 12,729 1,144 1,158 1,714 1,793

 Mechanics and repairers ................................................................ 4,675 4,786 4,146 4,233 370 379 479 496

 Construction trades ........................................................................ 5,378 5,594 4,859 5,054 381 398 736 785

 Other precision production, craft, and repair .................................. 4,071 4,031 3,467 3,441 393 381 499 512

 Operators, fabricators, and laborers ................................................. 18,399 18,256 14,813 14,609 2,781 2,866 2,839 2,917

 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors ............................ 7,962 7,791 6,322 6,146 1,178 1,200 1,426 1,340

 Transportation and material moving occupations ........................... 5,389 5,363 4,435 4,351 819 872 592 640

 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers .................... 5,048 5,102 4,057 4,112 784 795 821 938

 Construction laborers ................................................................... 811 821 681 705 105 97 166 193

 Other handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers ......... 4,237 4,282 3,376 3,407 679 698 655 745

 Farming, forestry, and fishing ........................................................... 3,503 3,502 3,254 3,233 156 172 721 792

CLASS OF WORKER

 Agriculture:

 Wage and salary workers ............................................................... 1,890 2,000 1,761 1,843 81 102 583 670

 Self-employed workers ................................................................... 1,457 1,341 1,397 1,280 36 36 76 71

 Unpaid family workers .................................................................... 51 38 50 37 – – 1 2

 Nonagricultural industries:

 Wage and salary workers ............................................................... 116,983 119,019 98,395 99,657 13,380 13,917 11,458 11,949

 Government .................................................................................... 18,131 18,383 14,514 14,686 2,860 2,877 1,331 1,355

 Private industries ............................................................................ 98,852 100,637 83,880 84,970 10,520 11,040 10,127 10,594

 Private households ....................................................................... 915 962 724 785 161 146 234 281

 Other industries ............................................................................ 97,937 99,674 83,156 84,185 10,359 10,894 9,893 10,312

 Self-employed workers ..................................................................... 9,056 8,962 8,153 8,030 471 497 598 590

 Unpaid family workers ...................................................................... 120 103 101 84 1 4 11 10

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

 Full-time workers .............................................................................. 106,334 108,202 89,605 90,759 11,920 12,429 10,741 11,303

 Part-time workers ............................................................................. 23,224 23,261 20,252 20,172 2,049 2,126 1,985 1,988

 NOTE: Detail for the above race and Hispanic-origin groups will not sum to

totals because data for the "other races" group are not presented and

Hispanics are included in both the white and black population groups. 

Beginning in January 1998, data reflect new composite estimation

procedures and revised population controls used in the household survey.

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