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Table 8. Job-related work at home on primary job by sex, occupation, industry, race, Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, educational attainment, and frequency of work at home, May 2004 (In thousands) Total who Worked at home Worked at home Worked at home Worked at home Characteristic worked at home at least once at least once at least once less than once (1) per week (2) every 2 weeks per month per month Total, 16 years and over........................... 25,437 20,673 1,929 1,637 881 Men.................................................. 13,309 10,780 1,093 836 438 Women................................................ 12,128 9,893 835 800 443 Occupation Management, professional, and related occupations.... 16,665 13,445 1,377 1,092 536 Management, business, and financial operations occupations...................................... 7,073 5,602 608 523 270 Professional and related occupations............... 9,591 7,842 769 569 266 Service occupations.................................. 1,617 1,414 78 63 48 Sales and office occupations......................... 5,285 4,291 347 373 209 Sales and related occupations...................... 3,586 3,137 211 141 65 Office and administrative support occupations...... 1,700 1,154 137 232 144 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations....................................... 1,273 1,036 105 57 55 Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations......... 3 3 - - - Construction and extraction occupations............ 834 705 62 35 26 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations...................................... 436 329 43 22 29 Production, transportation, and material moving occupations....................................... 597 488 22 51 33 Production occupations............................. 338 276 12 29 21 Transportation and material moving occupations..... 259 212 11 22 12 Industry Mining............................................... 51 44 3 € 2 Construction......................................... 1,758 1,491 122 77 52 Manufacturing........................................ 1,965 1,488 183 178 89 Wholesale and retail trade........................... 2,939 2,416 213 164 114 Transportation and utilities......................... 601 459 42 61 35 Information.......................................... 849 638 98 77 33 Financial activities................................. 2,739 2,210 212 190 89 Professional and business services................... 4,264 3,401 331 323 148 Education and health services........................ 7,322 6,189 485 364 191 Leisure and hospitality.............................. 873 731 46 51 32 Other services....................................... 1,302 1,113 80 70 28 Public administration................................ 773 493 114 82 69 Race and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity White................................................ 22,418 18,255 1,728 1,422 749 Black or African American............................ 1,554 1,245 97 106 75 Asian................................................ 924 718 69 81 45 Hispanic or Latino ethnicity......................... 1,491 1,255 64 100 48 Educational attainment Total, 25 years and over........................... 24,579 20,024 1,854 1,565 827 Less than a high school diploma...................... 599 539 13 29 11 High school graduates, no college (3)................ 3,300 2,631 197 271 147 Some college or associate degree..................... 5,686 4,482 448 431 278 Bachelor's degree and higher (4)..................... 14,995 12,372 1,197 835 392 1 Includes persons who did not report frequency of work at home. 2 Persons who usually work at homethat is, persons who worked at home at least once per weekare the focus of this report. 3 Includes persons with a high school diploma or equivalent. 4 Includes persons with bachelor's, master's, professional, and doctoral degrees. NOTE: Data refer to employed persons in nonagricultural industries who reported that they work at home as part of their primary job. Estimates for the above race groups (white, black or African American, and Asian) do not sum to totals because data are not presented for all races. In addition, persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race and, therefore, are classified by ethnicity as well as by race. Dash represents or rounds to zero.