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In 2016, employment in private social assistance industries reached 3.6 million. Among those industries, 1.6 million jobs were in services for the elderly and disabled and 850,000 were in child day care services.
Industry | Private | Federal government | State government | Local government |
---|---|---|---|---|
Child and youth services |
191.0 | 0.7 | 26.0 | 17.5 |
Services for the elderly and disabled |
1630.8 | 0.2 | 20.1 | 30.6 |
Other individual and family services |
412.5 | 1.5 | 59.4 | 51.5 |
Community food services |
35.0 | 0.1 | (1) | 1.0 |
Temporary shelters |
67.9 | 0.1 | (1) | 0.4 |
Other community housing services |
35.2 | (1) | (1) | 1.4 |
Emergency and other relief services |
25.2 | (1) | (1) | 0.4 |
Vocational rehabilitation services |
331.7 | 1.8 | 14.1 | 6.8 |
Child day care services |
850.2 | 10.8 | (1) | 9.6 |
Footnotes:
(1) Data not available. |
In 2016, state governments employed 105,500 workers in individual and family services, closely followed by local governments with 99,600 jobs in that industry. Local governments, however, had 30,600 jobs in services for the elderly and disabled, compared with 20,100 in state government.
These data are from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. For more data on establishments, employment, and wages, see the QCEW data retrieval tool. Individual and family services consists of the following industries: child and youth services, services for the elderly and disabled, and other individual and family services.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, 3.6 million employed in private social assistance industries in 2016 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2018/3-point-6-million-employed-in-private-social-assistance-industries-in-2016.htm (visited October 31, 2024).