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Occupations - Native Americans/alaska Natives And Jobs

In 2001 the proportion of Native Americans and Alaska Natives serving as officials and managers was low, comprising only 0.4 percent of the overall population of workers in these fields. Approximately 11.1 percent of employed Native Americans and Alaska Natives were professionals. Native Americans and Alaska Natives were more likely to be employed as operatives, sales workers, office and clerical workers, and service workers. (See Table 4.5.)

TABLE 4.3
Employed Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban-origin workers by sex, occupation, class of worker, and full-or part-time status, 2001–02
(Percent distribution)

Total Hispanic origin1 Mexican origin Puerto Rican origin Cuban origin
Category 2001 2002 2001 2002 2001 2002 2001 2002
Sex
Total (all civilian workers) 16,190 16,590 10,471 10,673 1,341 1,401 628 592
Men 9,668 9,845 6,522 6,588 672 738 369 337
Women 6,522 6,744 3,949 4,085 669 662 259 255
Occupation
Managerial and professional specialty 2,329 2,461 1,270 1,280 281 285 140 163
Executive, administrative, and managerial 1,239 1,293 711 702 142 134 68 89
Professional specialty 1,091 1,168 558 578 139 150 72 74
Technical, sales, and administrative support 3,877 3,828 2,309 2,297 433 439 196 180
Technicians and related support 375 341 218 197 36 39 22 14
Sales occupations 1,534 1,559 913 937 142 153 79 73
Administrative support, including clerical 1,968 1,928 1,178 1,163 256 246 95 92
Service occupations 3,278 3,475 2,046 2,144 253 284 95 85
Private household 241 256 126 133 7 3 3 3
Protective service 272 278 158 154 44 51 16 19
Service, except private household and protective 2,765 2,940 1,762 1,857 202 229 76 63
Precision production, craft, and repair 2,462 2,503 1,725 1,770 147 149 79 78
Mechanics and repairers 613 578 395 368 65 58 33 23
Construction trades 1,246 1,299 914 960 42 50 31 35
Other precision production, craft, and repair 603 626 415 442 40 42 16 20
Operators, fabricators, and laborers 3,466 3,472 2,446 2,445 210 223 108 81
Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors 1,440 1,357 1,025 941 99 81 29 24
Transportation and material moving occupations 770 827 517 549 52 69 34 27
Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers 1,256 1,287 904 954 59 73 45 30
Construction laborers 346 363 262 285 11 12 10 7
Other handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers 910 924 642 670 47 61 35 23
Farming, forestry, and fishing 777 850 676 738 17 22 10 5
Class of worker
Agriculture:
Wage and salary workers 630 687 546 610 13 13 9 3
Self-employed workers 85 91 63 74 1 2 5 2
Unpaid family workers 1 1 1 – – 1 – –
Nonagricultural industries:
Wage and salary workers 14,762 15,056 9,423 9,523 1,284 1,348 574 553
Government 1,633 1,687 1,036 1,042 193 210 66 66
Private industries 13,129 13,369 8,387 8,481 1,091 1,138 509 487
Private households 262 272 136 141 9 4 3 3
Other industries 12,868 13,097 8,251 8,340 1,082 1,134 506 483
Self-employed workers 701 746 431 461 42 37 39 34
Unpaid family workers 12 8 7 4 1 1 – 1
Full-or part-time status
Full-time workers 13,983 14,163 9,079 9,137 1,155 1,191 551 511
Part-time workers 2,206 2,427 1,392 1,536 185 210 77 81
1Includes persons of Central or South American origin and of other Hispanic origin, not shown separately.
SOURCE: "13. Employed Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban-Origin Workers by Sex, Occupation, Class of Worker, and Full-or Part-Time Status," in Household Data Annual Averages, U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, DC, 2002 [Online] www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat13.pdf [accessed January 24, 2004]

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